At the Gyan Bharatam International Conference organised by the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi, PM Modi said India still ...

NASA announced Wednesday that its Perseverance rover discovered what scientists are calling a "potential biosignature" in a rock on Mars last year. This signature, which may have a biological origin ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton is that kind of place – a celestial treasure perched above Silicon Valley that somehow remains off the radar for many Californians despite being one of the most ...

America's leadership "isn't some fixed, unchanging feature of the scientific landscape," says one UC historian.

But in 2024, everything changed for Jordan. VSU announced it would deactivate its physics, astronomy, and mathematics ...

Sept. 19 is my official retirement date as the director of the Vatican Observatory. After a delightful 10 years in the post, ...