Also on October evenings, standing high in the east-southeast is the most distinctive landmark of autumn nights: the Great ...

Bizarre phenomena have lured real-estate tycoons, scientists, TV producers—and the U.S. government—to Skinwalker Ranch. What are they looking for?

Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were fierce rivals in college, both leading their respective programs to national championships. Caitlin Clark broke the most records and commanded the most national ...

Every day, hordes of students venture out into the big, bright world, starting early in the morning and trekking across the ...

From vibrantly colored reefs in the Maldives to centuries-old temples in Sri Lanka (and so much more), here's why a ...

Venus shines bright after sunset, the giant planets rise before midnight, and Mars shines before dawn. Plus, catch Comet ...

Astronomers are waiting for T Coronae Borealis, a nova 3,000 light-years away, to explode for the first time in almost 80 ...

It’s Wednesday, 3 April 1968. Martin Luther King Jr is irritable, and worried. He has delivered what will be known as his ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a significant solar event when the Sun unleashed an intense class solar flare.

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As we anticipate the appearance of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS at dawn, Venus enlivens the western sky at dusk. We now have two ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. Detecting these molecules could tell ...