SOFIA, a 38,000-pound telescope inside an airplane, spent eight years observing the universe in infrared | Continue reading
The stunning new structure will also serve as place for visitors to reflect on the attacks | Continue reading
Next, the space agency wants to send astronauts to orbit—and land on—the moon | Continue reading
The mural, located outside Kyiv, depicts a woman in a bathrobe and a gas mask | Continue reading
Activists in China are using blank sheets of paper to speak out against the country's draconian zero-Covid policies | Continue reading
Live recordings from "Phinney's Rainbow" had been sitting on a journalist's bookshelf for years | Continue reading
For the second year in a row, a DAO is vying to bid on a rare first-edition copy | Continue reading
The rare neurological disease affects about one to two people in a million | Continue reading
The CDC estimates that 120,000 people have been hospitalized since October | Continue reading
Scientists found evidence of over 100 types of plants and animals that lived in the northern part of the island around two million years ago | Continue reading
In an unusual collaboration, archaeologists in Israel are working with police to analyze prints left on fifth- or sixth-century pottery shards | Continue reading
Famous writers around the world offered support to debut author Chelsea Banning | Continue reading
After two years of limited travel opportunities, we’re ready to explore the world once more | Continue reading
I'm walking in the Eifel Mountains in western Germany, through cathedral-like groves of oak and beech, and there's a strange unmoored feeling of entering a fairy tale. The trees have become vibrantly alive and charged with wonder. They're communicating with one another, for start … | Continue reading
Researchers say the woman may have been an early Christian leader with a large fortune | Continue reading
Stretchy connective tissue between the snakes' cranium and lower jaw allows them to open their mouth four times wider than their skull | Continue reading
A surge in canine influenza cases has likely resulted from changes in human behavior due to relaxed Covid-19 guidelines | Continue reading
The Czech Republic's Moravian Museum gave the document to the heirs of the Petschek family | Continue reading
Why use fences or traps, when you can use deadly viruses or lustful snakes? | Continue reading
After seeing plastic polluting her favorite beaches year after year, Madison Checketts decided it was time to do something about it | Continue reading
The term describes behavior that's "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy" | Continue reading
Skeletons of elasmosaurs are often found without their skull | Continue reading
Scientists will use its instruments to study the early universe | Continue reading
The famous singer bought the JetStar in 1976, a year before his death | Continue reading
Researchers are modeling out what the ocean may have looked like when the seaweed-munching mammal roamed the shores | Continue reading
See the Kepler technology demonstrator at the National Air and Space Museum, along with a host of technologies that brought success to space exploration | Continue reading
The spectacle, often one of the best showers of the year, will peak December 13 to 14 | Continue reading
From a detective story on the origins of Covid-19 to a narrative that imagines a fateful day for dinosaurs, these works affected us the most this year | Continue reading
The name may point to an abbess who lived in Kent at a time when few women could read or write | Continue reading
The capsule is scheduled to return to Earth on December 11 | Continue reading
Researchers found the lost body of the female thylacine after 85 years | Continue reading
Julian Anderson’s 25-minute concerto won the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition | Continue reading
Chantal Akerman’s bleak drama "Jeanne Dielman" tops the prestigious Sight and Sound poll | Continue reading
The Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act will make it easier for researchers to access marijuana and study its therapeutic uses | Continue reading
Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information and white male experts named 'Mike' | Continue reading
"Eyes on Iran," located in a public park on Roosevelt Island, faces the United Nations across the water | Continue reading
The replica titanosaur, based on fossils discovered in 2012, goes on view in March | Continue reading
Adults and larvae consume a nutrient-rich fluid released by pupae | Continue reading
Colorado's capital city will also get federal funding for the replacement project | Continue reading
The pandemic has exacerbated an already short supply of specially-bred canines that detect explosives | Continue reading
Research has shown that infected animals can engage in riskier behavior than their uninfected peers | Continue reading
The device, which would sit in the skull, has not received regulatory approval for use in humans | Continue reading
More than simply Picasso's muse, the French artist won renown for her striking paintings and photographs | Continue reading
As 2023 approaches, the bold pinkish-red is supposed to reflect the global zeitgeist | Continue reading
A disease called white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in North America | Continue reading
New research suggests more melted rock lies beneath the Yellowstone Caldera—but it’s still not likely to erupt anytime soon | Continue reading
Spectators at Rome’s ancient amphitheater enjoyed olives, figs, nuts and more | Continue reading
The bright light was the result of a rare cosmic occurrence known as a tidal disruption event | Continue reading