This week, researchers uncovered the negative pressure mechanisms plants use to communicate stress. Linguists found that the ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

In a close-up of the Rosette Nebula — a stellar nursery 5,200 light-years away — dark clouds of gas and dust are seen being carved by radiation from massive stars. A young star at the upper right is ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

Nasa is tracking a potentially devastating “zombie star” as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000kmh. The immensely dense object is one of 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, which are the ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured and amazing view of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104). The galaxy is ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...