When a giant squid washed ashore on a South African beach, one woman’s first instinct was to save its life. “At first, I just wanted to...
Though we’re already halfway through the week, it’s not too late to tune into the annual Grand Canyon National Park “Star Party.” The event, which is...
On Sunday, parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia will get to see a "ring of fire" solar eclipse.
Bose-Einstein condensates are often described as the fifth state of matter: At extremely low temperatures, gas atoms behave like a single particle. The exact properties of...
How do you measure a black hole's spin?
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of years...
Not all dinosaur eggs had a hard shell like bird eggs do today. Instead, new research has suggested that the first dinosaur eggs were soft-shelled like...
The annual "Star Party" has moved online.
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emissions from quasars, galaxies with a highly energetic...
This year’s Harvest Moon rises in all its gorgeous glory on October 1.