Are we hitching our wagon to the wrong star? Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has slammed a seemingly far-fetched proposal to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a spacecraft, claiming that we’re ...
For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our ...
Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was discovered. They celebrate scientific discovery, history and our solar system’s ...
Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you ...
Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Feb. 26, through Wednesday, March 4 ...
Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...
'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...
Ganymede's auroras splinter into small, bright patches — structures that mirror features seen in Earth's own auroral displays ...
If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...
Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting a distant star known as TIC-65910228. The newfound alien world ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes, turning planetary data into audio you can hear.