The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

I am grateful to be one of the many who called Sheriff Joe Richards mentor and friend. He showed me the ropes in more ways than one, including how to ...

The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

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The Sun isn’t just a distant ball of fire—it’s constantly bombarding Earth with charged particles in the form of solar wind. NASA’s PUNCH mission is set to capture this invisible force like never ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Over 500 million people have taken a holy dip during the Maha Kumbh festival even as two stampede incidents that killed dozens Read Full Arti ...

Photonics researchers have demonstrated how self-imaging of light, a phenomenon known for nearly two centuries, can be applied to cylindrical systems, facilitating unprecedented control of light's ...

Dogs are competing to be top of the class in a show in Guernsey. Guernsey Kennel Club is hosting the members' Kennel Club ...

The mantis shrimp comes equipped with its own weapons. It has claws that look like permanently clenched fists that are known ...

The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich hover between the sublime and the syrupy, occasionally touching down on either side of that surprisingly narrow divide. There are the ravishingly misted, ...

Neerja Chandna Peters' solo exhibition Roopa Bheda at Bikaner House in New Delhi showcases geometric symbolism and its beauty. She says it is her spiritual inspiration that helps to draw and see forms ...