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…
Scientists have discovered a mass die-off that took place two billion years ago—with up to 99.5 percent of life on…
These are the most startling photos from the world of science this year https://t.co/FNinUC7Kxq pic.twitter.com/RP3Dv4GsMN — CNN (@CNN) August 16,…
A Passing Fancy This Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5307, a planetary nebula which lies…
Researchers believe they have discovered what they describe as “the first volcanically active exomoon,” a celestial body eerily reminiscent of…
My aim as a theoretical physicist is to unite quantum theory with Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. While there are…
THE Arctic is in a death spiral. The top of our world is heating up faster than anywhere else on…