A meteor streaking across the Ohio skies put on quite a show for a few brief seconds Thursday evening.
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By Clay Dillow Pop-Sci The ability to read other people is largely perceived to be intuitive–some people just have a…
Scientists have discovered methane lakes in the tropical areas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of which is about half the…
An experiment led at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests that the Standard Model, which describes how subatomic particles interact
People often say that time speeds up as we age, but if the latest scientific theory is true the opposite could well…
China is due to embark on its most ambitious space mission Saturday with the launch of a spacecraft that will propel…
Little, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed early…
Biologists at the University of Manchester have developed a method of measurement, which shows that dinosaurs were not as big…
On June 14th, for the second day in a row, sunspot AR1504 erupted and hurled a CME toward Earth. The…
After more than a year in orbit, the US Air Force’s clandestine mini-space shuttle will probably land at Vandenberg Air Force…
An asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth Thursday (June 14), and you may…
The European Incredibly Big Telescope (E-ELT) will have a main mirror some 40m in diameter, and will be built on…
A NASA space telescope detected the highest-energy light ever measured in an eruption on the sun during a potent solar blast, the…
How aware are plants? This is the central question behind a fascinating new book, “What a Plant Knows,” by Daniel Chamovitz, director…
In June 2010, a team of scientists and intrepid explorers stepped onto the shore of the lava lake boiling in…
We’ve had the Face on Mars, the Smiley Face on Mars, even the Elephant Face on Mars — and now we’ve…
New evidence from NASA suggests Voyager-1, launched in 1977, may lastly be leaving the solar system — something no spacecraft…
Underneath the thick, virgin rainforest cover in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, archaeologists have discovered ruins they assume may be…