Rare earth metals power modern tech and clean energy, driving global trade shifts and geopolitical tension as new materials ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of the big star in our solar system.

Many are actually unaware of the Vatican Observatory's existence, even though it's one of the oldest astronomical institutes ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Light enters the telescope from the night sky, hits the primary mirror (8.4m diameter), is reflected onto the secondary mirror (3.4m) back onto a third mirror (4.8m) before entering its camera.

The 11-inch, 1845 refracting Merz und Mahler Telescope. (Image provided) Cincinnati historian and world traveler Bonnie Speeg sent a note this past week: “I just emailed you a PDF of the ...

It too will remain operational for five years, overlapping its observation time with the one of the telescopes already in position, and greatly expanding the scope of our Moon observations.

Also known as the Cigar Galaxy, Messier 82 is a spectacular site of intense star formation. This sharp mosaic view captures torn clouds and streams of glowing hydrogen erupting from its core, where ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile houses the world's most powerful survey telescope with the largest digital camera ever built by humans, and it is about to drop its first pictures. The US ...