Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance of seeing this shower. The moon ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square kilometres. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson pulled off the Louisiana ...

King tides and wild weather have carved out a dangerous sand cliff on a beloved stretch of beach south of Bundaberg.

A new Coles supermarket is in the pre-planning stages to be built on the existing northern urban fringe of Wangaratta. Coles ...

On December 3, the morning of Karthigai Deepam in Thiruparankundram looked like it always does. Pilgrims drifting in, vendors settling into their usual spo ...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

The discovery that Mount Everest was the world's highest peak was not a single 'eureka' moment for one person. It was the culmination of decades of work.

LiDAR measurements hit the ground every few feet of horizontal spacing and can miss the top of sharp summits, leading to an underestimate of summit height. They can also hit things such as bushes, ...

Abstract: In recent years, the laser gyro SINS has made great progress. The long-term experiments show that the attitude precision of laser gyro strapdown inertial navigation is equal to that of ...