A rare blue moon rises May 31, but it will not look blue. Here is what it means and the best time to see it.

The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the ...

When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a ...

NASA's Webb telescope analyzes weather on distant exoplanet WASP-94A b, revealing extreme atmospheric patterns 700 lightyears ...

A solar flare imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2024. (NASA SDO) Scientists have just realized that surface ...

A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with equal reflectivity – and ...

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

Internal changes due to the sun's "active biorhythm" have become increasingly "skin-deep" over the past four solar activity ...

In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the stirrings of liberty beyond the British colonies that became the ...

Almost half the stuff in orbit around Earth can be classified as space junk, and the problem is only going to get worse as launches and orbital infrastructure increase. Using data from the U.S. Space ...

At an intimate yet welcoming venue called Pour Souls in the Wicker Park neighborhood, friends and strangers fill up couches and settle in for an evening of deep listening. Their phones are put on ...

You’ve probably seen a Foucault pendulum in a museum. This Victorian-era science demonstration is named after physicist Léon Foucault and shows how the Earth rotates compared to a pendulum moving in a ...