Scientists at the Australian National University have come up with a simple equation to calculate the impact of human forces on planet Earth. The numbers suggests...
A new study suggests the universe is a hologram. Cosmologists have long struggled to develop a unified model of the universe. Problems arise when trying to...
A new chemical assay could aid the search for life on other planets. The new detection method is designed to identify the presence of amino acids,...
The first of NOAA’s new generation of weather satellites, GOES-16, has beamed back its first images. The full-color images of Earth’s Western Hemisphere were captured by...
Archaeologists have created the most precise timeline of Mayan civilization, offering new insights into the ancient people’s downfall. As part of a new survey of Mayan...
San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane, one of Earth’s best “planet hunters,” recently turned his attention to the Wolf 1061 system, a collection of planets...
Most people blink every few seconds, and yet our vision remains mostly constant. Our visual experience isn’t characterized by a constant back-and-forth between light and darkness....
Scientists have named a newly discovered species of moth after Donald Trump. Researchers named the moth after the President-elect because the new moth, in adult form,...
Lawrence Molnar, a professor of astronomy and physics at Calvin College, has crunched the numbers on KIC 9832227, a contact binary star system. According to his...
New research suggests the lunar poles can experience sparks — miniature lightning strikes — that could melt the moon’s soil. Because the moon’s atmosphere is nearly...
A mysterious signal that has confounded scientists for years has been traced to a spot in the sky more than 3 billion light-years away. Almost a...