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Many American schoolchildren grow up learning that Yellowstone was the world’s first national park. But across the globe in ...

Astrotourism is coming to Canada, thanks to an ambitious plan for a chain of six dark-sky sites along 100 miles of the ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

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Built from solid tungsten, this Thor’s hammer isn’t just for show—it’s one of the densest objects ever created in a workshop. A real-world test of strength, weight, and unliftable engineering.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of everything from the history of the solar system to the workings of dark ...

An excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling an otherworldly sight on the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City.

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.