A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with equal reflectivity – and ...

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

Using more than a decade of observations from the VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), researchers measured the ...

A solar flare imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2024. (NASA SDO) Scientists have just realized that surface ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission could soon answer one of the most intriguing questions in planetary science: is asteroid ...

Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system ...

Nasa has officially retired the Maven spacecraft after more than a decade of exploration at Mars. This mission provided ...

As a night owl, I tend to savor those extra minutes which extend a part of the day I can fully utilize. The transition from ...

China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left Earth in May 2025 and should return in late 2027 with samples of a space ...

NASA’s Fermi telescope may have finally uncovered the magnetic powerhouse behind the universe’s brightest supernovae.

A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world.