Is it based on facts, or is it based upon a belief in human exceptionalism? These are some of the questions explored by Lee and Morgan Irons in a recent article published in Frontiers in Astronomy and ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What ...

Newsweek has crowned Lowell Observatory the best science museum in the United States, based on public voting in the 2025 ...

RIT astrophysical sciences and technology Ph.D. student Audrey Dunn was at Kitt Peak working with the Tomographic Ionized ...

Scientists test a laser mass spectrometer that identifies microbial fossils in gypsum, enhancing the search for ancient life ...

It largely failed to accomplish science and technology tasks for NASA and other customers. By Kenneth Chang Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to ...

The third to eighth centuries CE has been marginalised by falling between two periods of Near Eastern pre-eminence in the sciences: ancient Mesopotamia before it, and the Arabic scientific renaissance ...

Dr George Musgrave is both a musician and an academic, with first-hand experience of the music industry’s challenges. In this guest editorial, inspired by their moving and urgent new article in ...

Earth is no longer on a collision course with asteroid 2024 YR4, but it could potentially collide with the Moon. After weeks ...

Observations made from Hill’s backyard and later confirmed by working with an academic research team suggest that Jupiter’s ...