Climate change will increase the risk of heavy rainfall and storm surges combining to cause extreme flooding around the UK,…
The largest and most powerful volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io erupts like clockwork and is set to go off again…
Aryn Baker of TIME Magazine It’s just after 7 in the morning in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, and donkey-cart…
I Starstruck IBizarre comet from another star system just spottedDiscovered by an amateur astronomer, the inbound object is only the…
Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, its goal has been to study not only distant astronomical objects, but also…
The discovery, published today in Nature Astronomy, is the first successful atmospheric detection of an exoplanet orbiting in its star’s…
This Picture of the Week shows a dwarf galaxy named UGC 685. Such galaxies are small and contain just a tiny fraction of the…
By Phil Plait Thu, Sept 5, 2019 Sometimes, descriptions can be too simplistic. For example: Meteorites are bits of asteroids…