From waterfalls to unusual formations, Pennsylvania offers natural wonders that feel almost unreal once you experience them ...
New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.
A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 ...
NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...
Scientists are now certain that James Webb will break every such record until the earliest observable light is eventually ...
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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text
A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
SLAC National Accelerator Lab researchers have revealed hidden references to an ancient “star map” in a centuries-old document.
Addressing students, faculty members and dignitaries, the President paid rich tributes to eminent Odia writer and social reformer Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan Senapati, after whom the university is named.
The VLT recently captured an image of an object known as Ve 7–27, which was long thought to be a planetary nebula. However, ...
Using the synchotron particle accelerator, scientists read the erased ancient text of a Hipparchus astronomical manuscript.
"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...
Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.
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