The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

The National Research Foundation (NRF) is pleased to announce the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). A prestigious celebration will take place on 10 ...

Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as the place to do plasma ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

When the famous Coggia's Comet flashed across the sky in 1874, a Missouri astronomer named Carr Waller Pritchett made a wish. A year later, that wish came true. Pritchett was hoping for the right ...

Cosmic witchcraft is the study of, you guessed it, the skies—think astronomy, astrology ... Speaking of herbs, learning more ...

A new introduction to the great philosopher’s work foregrounds its revolutionary nature and far-reaching impact.

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will host several live talk programs and the final “Dome After Dark” ...

Pueblo Transit and Pueblo Community College (PCC) are partnering to allow all students with a student ID to ride city buses ...

The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...