The big thinkers at Aperture explain the Drake Equation and the search for extraterrestrial life.

What survives a black hole: an additional black hole, or a neutron star? Recalculations put the two at the same clock and the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers measure cosmic rays in far-off ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

Wyoming will gain over 70 minutes of daylight in February as "solar spring" begins, which will make days longer and warmer. Meteorologists say that ...

If King Trump has his way, Black History Month will be diluted into some form of ‘Blank His-story.’  Not only is the Trumpster at the vanguard of a sustained movement […] ...

The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in the planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon is governed by the Navier-Stokes ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

Space is getting crowded — nowadays, over 45,000 human-made objects orbit Earth. A portion of that figure is indeed represented by the thousands of satellites humans use for internet, GPS and other ...

The moon will pass directly in front of the sun on Feb. 17, setting the stage for a dramatic annular solar eclipse.

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...