We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...

Mark Matney’s fresh hypothesis suggests that the Star of Bethlehem may have been a bright comet that briefly appeared to ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected. This discovery, made possible by Webb’s advanced imaging capabilities, was ...

The GMRT’s 30 antennas work together as a single telescope by combining data from all antennas. The question now is: can we ...

A photographer captured a fleeting, glowing red halo, an atmospheric phenomenon so rare it’s almost elusive. Known as an “elve,” the phenomenon lasted less than a thousandth of a second but left a ...

Space programs around the world are heating up in the discussion for short-term human habitats to survive on alien surfaces. Scientists and engineers must overcome challenges of materials, extreme ...

Edwin Hubble, born November 20, 1889, made seminal observations in 1923 of the Andromeda Galaxy and a Cepheid variable, which significantly broadened the understanding of other galaxies and the ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to bring about change over the past decade, research has shown.