In July 1999, two men using metal detectors on the Mittelberg hill near Nebra in central Germany unearthed a bronze disc ...

Welcome to "The World is a Little Mysterious Today."Once again, this is a rambling, personal story of mine with neither a ...

Tiny particles called neutrinos could help determine whether a dying massive star explodes as a supernova or collapses into a black hole. When dying stars run out of fuel, they have two ways to go.

The Pleiades is probably the most famous star cluster in the sky, prominent with the naked eye and difficult to mistake. Located 440 lightyears away, the Pleiades is an open star cluster contained in ...

This month brings two meteor showers, an eerie orange-tinted full moon, and one of the year’s last chances to glimpse the Milky Way’s luminous core. A long-exposure photograph captures stars appearing ...

One of the Whirlpool Galaxy’s spiral arms resolves into dozens of stellar nurseries that one day will produce massive open star clusters. Each of the nascent clusters spans up to 100 light-years. This ...

Thanks to modern effects, animated aliens can now appear in live action Star Trek. The withering remark that humiliated Trump in his latest court failure HMRC to ...

Noah Hawley and Rob Mac's Far Cry series just gained a massive batch of stars to add to its cast list, and they make for a very interesting combination. Variety reports that Mac, who is both writing ...

September offers Saskatchewan stargazers a chance to spot distant galaxies and star clusters as the evening sky changes with the season. Abigail Sadowski, a resident astronomer at the Kalium ...

The Hawaii Department of Health is alerting residents to a recall of dairy-free pints of salted caramel cluster frozen desserts due to the potential presence of foreign objects. Danone USA of New York ...

In astrophysics, the impact of spin is especially profound. Unlike ordinary stars, neutron stars are supported not by thermal pressure but by the degeneracy pressure arising from the Pauli exclusion ...