North America's Premier Fulldome Festival Returns April 23-26 in Boulder, Colorado This year's selections reflect a ...

Henry VIII is not remembered as a loving husband. Any English schoolchild can recount the unpleasant fates of most of his six wives with the rhyme: “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, ...

This seasonal celebration of hands-on tinkering and experimentation invites everyone to create, explore, and color their ...

Myopia is skyrocketing around the world, often blamed on endless screen time — but new research suggests the real culprit may ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn morning in the Southern Hemisphere (false dawn). In early autumn, the timing ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

The discovery of CDG-2 began when a team of astronomers investigated tight groupings of stars called globular clusters, which ...

A new bio-inspired molecule captures solar energy and releases it as heat on demand, outperforming lithium-ion batteries.

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light energy into chemical energy). Plants and algae use sunlight to convert ...