Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

Looking westward with binoculars or telescopes immediately after sunset can be risky, as accidentally looking directly at the ...

The gap between the longest- and shortest-living communities is more than 16 years — 88.1 in Westwood, 71.8 in Sun Village in the Antelope Valley. Latinos saw the steepest decline in life expectancy ...

Ever look at an old recipe and wonder what happened to some of the ingredients? Culinary history is full of fascinating twists and turns, and what was once a staple on the dinner table might now be ...

While city lights can hamper stargazing, there are a few prime spots in and around the Mother City to catch grand celestial sights.

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest fast radio burst ever detected and traced it to a nearby galaxy using a new network of CHIME Outrigger telescopes. The flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, lasted only a ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun.

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Here we are with the best science-themed tricky riddles (with answers) that will test your ability to think outside the box!

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...