Isaac Newton did not just invent calculus and rewrite physics, he also tried to calculate the end of the world with the same ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

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If you're going to Mars you'd best take along a jar of anti-aging cream because while you're there you're going to age faster ...

Astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra delighted mission control with their rendition of the Christmas classic ...

By Ben BRAKOFor centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the ...

The first exoplanet ever discovered in 1995 was what we now call a "hot Jupiter," a planet as massive as Jupiter with an ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports everything from quantum theory and smartphone algorithms to the stability of ...