Astronaut and University of Calgary alumnus Robert Thirsk returned to his alma mater this weekend to talk about what life as ...

One of the best meteor showers of the year, the Geminid meteor shower, is here. The star fall event peaks Saturday night, Dec. 13, with over a hundred meteors falling every hour. “It’s one really good ...

Naming a star after your wife may be beautifully symbolic, but it won’t be recognized by the astronomy community. One hundred ...

Brazil has long been Latin America’s most ambitious space nation, yet its aspirations have often been hampered by funding ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

Christmas trees—and conifers in general—have made some surprising cameos throughout U.S. history, author Trent Preszler ...

Taking the highest IMDb rating for Hallmark Christmas movies set in Vermont is "Following Yonder Star," a new movie that premiered this year. After a scandal tears apart Abby's life, she spends ...

The Town of Chapel Hill announced that a section of S. Columbia St. will be closed as UNC conducts maintenance on its steam ...

Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Tech startup Atomic Canyon has harnessed the power of the Frontier supercomputer to train the first nuclear-specific ...