For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

Lately, writer Scott Snyder and his collaborators have been fleshing out the origin and nature of Absolute Joker. Read on for ...

Stargazing can stimulate an interest in space in kids and lead to a passion for science. But rural schools often lack the ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted an object unlike any previously observed, revealing an unusual remnant of the ...

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Many astronomical events, such as meteor showers, run by calendrical timings as well. But our moon and the other planets move ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...