For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe expanding right ...

Have you ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

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A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact constantly shifting ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?

People often imagine a creative genius as someone who dropped out of high school and drew in a poorly lit café or as a ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

A shifting of Earth’s poles, referred to as ‘True Polar Wander,” combined with the sinking of tectonic plates during the Cenozoic Era, altered the planet’s interior, with rising hot mantle material ...

Despite last-minute setbacks, NASA hopes the Orion spacecraft will soon take four people on the furthest journey in the ...

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...