This stunning map of the Milky Way pinpoints more than 1 billion stars
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a catalog, the most detailed to date, of more than 1.5 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble’s $8.8 billion successor, faces lengthy delay
On Tuesday, NASA officials revealed James Webb Space Telescope’s launch date has slipped from spring of 2019 to approximately May 2020 — a delay that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Primeval salt shakes up ideas on how the atmosphere got its oxygen
Our planet may have gained breathable air in the geologic blink of an eye.
False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news
False news -- inaccurate information presented as truth or opinion presented as fact -- is 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than information that faithfully reports actual events, according to a new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The jaw fragment suggests our species began traveling abroad 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Charts highlight some of the key issues Women’s March activists are fighting for.
Back in May 2017 a team of scientists used satellite information to predict an outburst of cholera in Yemen.
For 300 million years faults showed no activity, and then wastewater injections from oil and gas wells came along.
The massive slabs of Earth’s crust might have started their journey more than 3.5 billion years ago.
