Using what's really a pretty dang clever new technique, astronomers have discovered what appear to be two double-quasars (and possibly a third pair as well) billions...
NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected two more relatively large quakes on the Red Planet, and they came from the direction of a very interesting region...
Presented as a type of "global insurance policy" to preserve Earth's precious flora and fauna in a high-tech repository on the Moon, University of Arizona assistant...
We all recall the plaster cutaway models of the Earth in grammar school science class, with slices of our planet broken down into the simple components of crust,...
Every day in the late southern spring and summer, an astonishing elongated cloud forms around a gigantic volcano on Mars. This cloud appears every morning, grows...
There’s a problem with the Universe. Or, possibly, there’s a problem with how we’re observing it. Either way, something’s fishy. In a nutshell, the Universe is...
The ancients deified the sun for a reason. Its life-giving rays bring light to Earth that makes it possible for photosynthetic processes to occur, which keeps the...
If visionary French aquaculture scientists are correct, farming fish on the lunar surface could one day become a reality for moonbase residents hungry for a nice seabass...
When it comes to star sizes, there are dwarfs, there are giants, and there are supergiants. And then there are hypergiants. These are very massive stars...
The sky is big. If you want to map it in detail, you have to think big, too. Astronomers are good at that. A massive international...