We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

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While searching a farm on the west coast of the Isle of Man with his metal detector, Rob Middleton pulled a strange bronze ...

A pink glow beckons. Visitors remove their shoes and enter a spiral maze of salt and mirrors. In another room, some visitors ...

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed an ancient bronze spoon that Iron Age people may have used to forecast the future ...

They rushed to flee the fires in Southern California, grabbing their belongings and their pets. They took the precious and ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away. UGC 1810 and UGC 1813 are spiral ...

Buddhist jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues—have more in common than previously thought, a ...

The bronze Iron Age spoon is the first of its kind to be discovered on the Isle of Man, although 27 similar artifacts have ...