If humans are to expand our habitat beyond Earth’s bounds, we will undoubtedly need the support of plant life: to remove ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Jupiter and Sirius rise after dark this month, creating a striking duo that are obvious candidates for a modern-day ...

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

Astronomer Gemma Lavender thought this telescope was great for beginners and astrophotographers, and now it's $500 this Black ...

A look at how states from Oklahoma to Illinois to California are reviving America's most iconic highway for its 100th ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

On Hawaii's Hāmākua Coast, Jen Murphy finds not only verdant canyons striped with waterfalls but also a burgeoning food scene ...

Stars like our Sun have around the same overall density as water. But when a star collapses in its old age, and its material gets compressed by runaway gravity, the result is a brilliant white sphere ...

Virginia's 44th state park opened last month in the mountains of Highland County. Its backstory includes agriculture, hunting ...