Asteroid 433 Eros is swinging back into Earth’s neighborhood this weekend, bright enough for backyard telescopes and even ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

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WHENEVER Yolandi Boshoff looks up at the night stars – she isn’t looking at the Moon or one of Elon Musk’s starlink ...

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Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

Following its birth as a 1978 BBC Radio sitcom through its many and varied adaptations, Douglas Adams ’ The Hitchhikers’ ...

Stellaris, Paradox's sci-fi grand strategy, allows you to design your very own alien civilization and then explore an entire ...

Arvind Ethan David’s new spin on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has finally beamed itself aboard Riverside Studios, ...

NASA has announced the discovery of a peculiar celestial object named CWISE J1249, which challenges existing classifications ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...