The Maya civilisation is known for its art and architecture. But we’re discovering Maya astronomy was even more advanced than ...

Author Andy Weir is breaking down the science behind Project Hail Mary. In an exclusive with Woman's World, Weir says the physics is real—except at the quantum level of how Astrophage works. He adds ...

Born March 21, 1866, in New York, Antonia Maury was born into a family with an astronomical legacy: Her grandfather, John ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...

In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois tonight and over the weekend as several coronal mass ejections and fast solar ...