Few people have heard of the leap second, yet it is so important that timekeepers from across the world are meeting next week ...

Each year, new astronomy equipment reflects advances in technology and the evolving ways observers engage with the night sky.

Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the ...

When a dying star runs out of fuel and sheds its outer layers, its remaining core can become an approximately Earth-sized, ...

If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even ...

Introduction]A cold, icy planet 4.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, where even light barely reaches—that is Neptune, the ...

Niobium hidden in old Hubble spectra of the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 suggests a gas giant built from the material its star ...

The Army has been trying since 1999 to replace the M2 Bradley with a newer, heavy-metal, tracked vehicle for its mechanized ...

IntroductionIn this series, we are verifying the hypothesis that "the universe might be a simulation running on a giant ...

India must boost grid flexibility and transmission capacity to sustain rapid renewable growth, per FICCI-Nangia study ...

Radio signals emanating from Beta Pictoris b suggest that this young and massive exoplanet has a strong magnetic field and ...

IISc simulations show strong internal magnetic fields could let white dwarfs exceed the Chandrasekhar limit to about 2.4 ...