Michael Aranda sits in for Hank to talk about the forces of nature that conspired to form Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ...

The Extremely Large Telescope, located in Paranal, Chile, is poised to be the largest optical telescope ever constructed.

Surprisingly, a toxic compound found on Mars could help bacteria produce brick-like substances that could be used to assemble habitats on the Red Planet.

Major reforms to the United Kingdom’s national research funding agency are aimed at boosting the nation's economy.

An American high school student has stunned the scientific world by developing an algorithm to map 1.5 million previously ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

Scientists using Juno report Jupiter is smaller than previously thought, enhancing understanding of its shape, interior density, gravitational field, and comparison to other gas giant planets ...

After 50 years of assumptions, fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter, ...

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Eliza Frankel, a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student studying physics and astronomy, was one of seven graduate students honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 247th ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

The first disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field caused by high solar activity will begin on February 5. However, ...