STAMFORD — Students collected crabs species from the inlet near Holly Pond at Cove Island Park on Tuesday in Stamford as part of Science Stars, a STEM ...

In a galaxy 250 light-years away, a powerful magnetic explosion erupted from a tiny, faint star. It's the coolest and smallest star that scientists have observed ...

The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets.

The first day of operation for the historic Glen Echo Park carousel is on Saturday, and there will be activities for the whole family, including live music and dance ...

The odds of an atmosphere forming around an Earth-like exoplanet are even slimmer than previously thought, a new study suggests.

The team, made up of 10 and 11-year-olds, want to find a way to kill bacteria in space.

Here are the possible ways that the universe could meet its maker.

In 2004, NASA published an image by the Hubble Space Telescope of turbulent eddies of dusty clouds moving around a supergiant star. The agency noted that ...

Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialized on cosmic gamma rays, scientists have measured the smallest apparent size of a star on the night sky to ...

The first image of M87's black hole suggests it is 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun — close to what was expected based on how stars move around it.

As the Marvel franchise reaches its 22nd instalment, has it created the superhero blockbuster to end all blockbusters? Sadly not, writes Nicholas Barber.

When you're looking to answer science's toughest questions, you need to be to identify and eliminated as many variables as possible, and the Sanford ...

Date: April 15, 2019; Source: University of Delaware; Summary: We gaze up at them, we wish upon them, we even sing about swinging on them. But the one ...

Since it was first launched on 24 April 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.4 million observations of nearly 45000 celestial objects.

For the first time scientists have been able to prove a decades old theory on stars thanks to a revolutionary high-speed camera. Scientists at the University of ...

In a glimpse of what may be in store for our own solar system, astronomers have discovered what appear to be the shattered remains of a planet orbiting a white ...

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On the heels of the recent announcement by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration of the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole, I interviewed ...

Riverwood Students Shine At State Science Fair - Sandy Springs, GA - A Riverwood International Charter School student was one of 60 chosen to present her ...

On 22 March 2015, NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory recorded a blip in its data. Not far from the southern constellation of Fornax, something brightened, then ...

Springtime stargazers are in for a treat; the Lyrid meteor shower will peak in a dazzling show tonight and early Tuesday morning (April 22-23). There's just one ...

Using a telescope the size of the planet, astronomers have captured the first image of this space oddity. Here's why that matters.

Something weird is happening in our galaxy: It's spinning fast enough that stars ought to be flying off, but there's something holding them together.

We are surrounded by alien worlds. In neighbouring star systems, Earth-like planets abound, with unusual names like Proxima b, TRAPPIST–1e, Ross–128b, ...

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Once upon a time, I was involved in an abortive attempt to measure the variation of the fundamental constants. Thanks to that experience, I've always had an ...

An international team led by Professor XUE Yongquan from University of Science and Technology announced their observation of a unique X-ray signal from 6.6 ...

Maybe 'Oumuamua wasn't the first visitor from another star system after all. When the mysterious, stadium-size object sped past our sun in 2017 before ...

A stellar flare 10 times more powerful than anything seen on our Sun has burst from an ultracool star almost the same size as Jupiter.

Two recent Hubble Space Telescope photographs offer stunning looks at huge numbers of stars.

Astronomers aren't sure how this galaxy ended up with its long, gassy appendages, but NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope is going to ...

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled today honoring versatile entertainer Seth MacFarlane, a four-time Emmy winner who has also received ...

Thursday night the Dallas Stars will saddle up to a date with the St. Louis Blues for game one of the second round; this time without Kris Russell....

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Brown dwarfs fill the 'gap' between stars and the much smaller planets. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers may now be able to ...

VERITAS Collaboration measure size of star 2674 light years away.

Two recent Hubble Space Telescope photographs offer stunning looks at huge numbers of stars.

The series finale of Gotham, Fox; The Big Bang Theory, CBS; Young Sheldon, CBS; season finale of The Orville, Fox; season premiere of Top Gear, BBC ...

NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller ...

Duong Van Ni has developed a warning system for farmers to flag encroaching salinity in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

There's a bright magnetar photobombing the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, frustrating astronomers' efforts to study the black hole ...

NASA's new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and its ...

"What would happen if the sun exploded?" The sun will start to die when it runs out of fuel — a very, very long time from now. But if it did suddenly explode, ...

The collection features 14 writers including Regina Kanyu Wang, Xia Jia and Han Song, with stories exploring time travel, prophecy, love, madness, family, ...

We tend to think of stars as the objects that make most of the light in the Universe, while planets, moons, rocks, dust and gas reflect this starlight. But it turns out ...

Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets.

A scheme to replace yellow sodium street lights with LED alternatives is to be rolled out across Northern Ireland. At present there are nearly 300,000 street lights ...

Praised by the Chicago Tribune for its “warmhearted wit leavened with wistful regret” and “inner light of emotional honesty,” playwright Lauren Gunderson's ...

NASA's new planet-hunting space telescope TESS may be primarily searching for alien worlds, but it's certainly not the only thing the shiny beast can do.

Imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, this magnificent nebula resembles a butterfly floating through space and was formed by the stars that were born, ...

The SETI approach is to look for aliens' radio transmissions, but searching for artifacts of extraterrestrial civilizations, like megastructures, may be better.

Here's what astronomers know about the "dark" side of our moon.

A black hole isn't truly a hole. It's quite the opposite. A black hole is a place in space containing an enormous amount of mass packed very tightly together.

A bear in a hallway, a tarantula on a wall, a man attacking a telescope with a gun, lightning strikes, mountain living — so many stories. And then there was the ...

Astronomers who study stars have contributed to the analysis of a planet discovered by NASA's new TESS Mission. It's the first planet identified by TESS for ...

A meeting between Mars and the Pleiades and a bright asteroid sighting will also entice sky-watchers to look up this month.

Friends of the James River Valley Library System will present “Stars in Your Eyes: How to Use That Telescope You Received at Christmas or Your Birthday,' ...

Around 80,000 comic book and sci-fi nerds are expected to show up at Awesome Con, the local version of Comic-Con, this weekend. At least three distinguished ...

Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have uncovered one of the oldest star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The helium hydride molecule, long known to exist in the lab and long thought to be present in space under the right temperature conditions and in the presence ...

Twenty years after revealing this nebula's wonky hourglass shape, the Hubble Space Telescope returns its gaze to the Southern Crab Nebula.

Read Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's poems influenced by science.

California is notorious for its earthquakes, but a stunning new discovery reveals for the first time just how much we've underestimated its omnipresent ...

UNSW astronomers have shown that binary stars – two stars locked in orbit around each other – reflect light as well as radiating it, revealing new ways for their ...

Scientists in the VERITAS Collaboration have published a paper in Nature Astronomy journal detailing the smallest stars in the night sky known to date.

A team of Brazilian astronomers recently determined a giant exoplanet, over thirteen times more massive than Jupiter, is likely responsible for some funky orbital ...

THE discovery of a breathtaking “space butterfly” in deep space has given NASA an incredibly clear view into a cluster of very young stars.

Right-leaning Canadian politicians have won important elections over the last year, but it may do Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau more good in October's ...

(Inside Science) -- This March, we take a look at images of space that echo the signs of spring we're starting to see in the Northern Hemisphere. From budding ...

Colin Camerer is a pioneer in the study of how brain activity drives economic decisions.

Stellan Skarsgard will not reprise his role of Dr Erik Selvig in the 4th Avengers.

Philip Ball talks to Katie Paterson, whose artworks take on climate change, Moon dust and the death of stars.

The next full Moon is the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon, the Pink Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon and Bak Poya.

Stargazers are going to appreciate these April showers. Night skies in the Northern Hemisphere are going to sparkle with meteors early Tuesday as the annual ...

The Sin City star joined Julie Bowen, Nikki Reed, Lisa Edelstein and others to premiere their series of short films empowering women to join STEM fields.

Eric Rice is attacking public health programs in an uncharted way.

The most common way to form a black hole in the Universe is to have a massive star reach the end of its life and explode in a catastrophic supernova. However ...

Vin Diesel has confirmed that he's joined one of the Avatar sequels and revealed which Avengers: Endgame co-star convinced him to sign on.

Three planets are orbiting two suns in the Kepler-47 system. Astronomers discovered the third planet, a Neptune-to-Saturn-size world lurking between two ...

Humanity's great leap into interstellar space — the space between the stars — has begun. Here are 10 things we've learned about going interstellar.

Earth is often in the firing line of fragments of asteroids and comets, most of which burn up tens of kilometres above our heads. But occasionally, something ...

What do NASA engineers, synthetic biologists and Silicon Valley VCs do for Coachella? Throw a party to talk about colonizing space.

It did not take the Co-Star Astrology App very long to issue its first withering burn. “Correct all the time-wasting at your job,” read the notification hovering over my ...

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The graduation season has seen many local celebs shine, proving that star quality and brains are a perfect match. Mzansi's stars inspired fans as they posed in ...

The Aussie actor walked away with the Mirror Ball Trophy and $50, 000 donated to his chosen charity.

Which are the best movies on Netflix you could be watching right now? We've put together this long, yet awesome, list of the 50 best Netflix movies in 2019.

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There's a point in space that's 50,000 times as bright as our sun — the signature of a massive star. Scientists already knew about it and named it PDS 27.

One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy. Since then, that cluster has whipped four long circles around the edge of the Milky Way. In that time ...

From artificial intelligence to infectious diseases, top researchers in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are making big impacts on the ...

According to models of stellar evolution, certain types of stars need longer than the universe has existed to form.

Who will take home this year's Ig Nobels, the world's most unusual science prizes?

Two stars are locked in a fight to the death a mere 650 light-years from Earth. A new camera system on the Very Large Telescope zoomed in on the action.

A group of 12 red giants seem to be passing gas way faster than they should be. New research suggests it's all an illusion — and secret binary stars are to ...

Since the dawn of humanity, people have looked to the sky and marveled at the glittering lights above. With the advent of modern telescopes, scientists came to ...

A monthlong visit to observatories in Chile, Hawaii and Los Angeles revealed spellbinding visions of the heavens.

More than 20 species of sea stars—including the sunflower star, a keystone predator with a wide range—have been ravaged by a poorly-understood ailment ...

How many stars have formed in the Universe, and when did they do so? These fundamental questions are difficult to answer because there are systematic ...

At first, it looks like a planet: dark, snow-speckled and slashed down the center by a deep red scar. But zoom in a little closer, and you realize you're looking at ...