As the American Meteor Society notes, Quadrantids has a short but active peak, lasting around 6 hours. The peak is expected to start around 4 p.m. ET and last well into the evening. NASA predicts the ...

We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence ...

As of Sunday, Dec. 21, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent (if you're in the U.S). According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, ...

The last major lunar event of the year takes place December 20, 2025—the New Moon in Sagittarius heralds the darkest night of ...

Michaela Benthaus says she wanted to savor floating in space while beholding Earth from on high and pushing the boundaries ...

Rep. Gus Bilirakis, a Palm Harbor Republican who chairs the House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee, introduced the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) ( HR 6484 ), legislation he said would ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite collection we care for to understand the history of Earth and our solar ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday restored for now Texas' newly redrawn congressional map that could give Republicans five additional House seats, after a lower court found that some of the ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

A rare astronomical event will occur on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, as a new moon reaches its farthest distance from Earth until 2043. Occurring four hours before the moon reaches its new phase at 1:47 a ...

As we dive into the sprint to the end of the year, filled with festive, social, buoyant moments shared with our nearest and dearest, it’s natural to feel emotional and even somewhat introspective.

U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco on Monday ordered Alabama to use a new state Senate map in the 2026 and 2030 elections that is “identical” to one drawn and submitted by a minor resident, according to ...