As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast, and on winter nights the constellation Orion hangs ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair ...

Scientists at Curtin University have uncovered a new way to read the deep history of Earth’s landscapes using microscopic zircon crystals from ancient beach sands. These incredibly durable minerals ...

The zodiacal light – so called because it appears within the same belt of constellations as the zodiac signs (and is a light) – looks like a huge ghostly pyramid in the sky, its vertical axis tilted ...

The greatest films, released since 2000, that slipped through the cracks when they premiered and now deserve a second look—or first-time discovery. 20th Century Women Mike Mills 25th Hour Spike Lee A ...