A black hole is more than just a region of space where nothing escapes. It can also become a powerful cosmic engine.

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s ...

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Scientists suspect that subtle biological tools help guide remarkable bird migrations over thousands of miles.

Satellites, our eyes in the skies about 22,000 miles up, play a crucial role in predicting and tracking potentially ...

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial tipping point.

Every dog owner is probably familiar with this behavior: you take your dog out for a potty break, and before it does its ...

Deep in the bowels of the Princes Square shopping centre, at the base of the wood-paneled escalators, hangs a Foucault pendulum. Installed in the late 1980s after the Victorian square was renovated ...

At one point, a Stargate spin-off show was being discussed that would have centered on two characters who proved they had ...

Maintaining the fuel at temperatures below –183°C is key: even small heat leaks in space can cause gases to boil off.