Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline May's skywatching, with stunning moon pairings and a three-planet display.

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A century after their discovery, cosmic rays—particles of extreme energy originating from the far reaches of the ...

Each week, the Record (using a script in R) randomly selects a student at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature, ...

Kai Madgwick led the University of Manchester to victory over Edinburgh in the University Challenge final, completing a 17-year personal journey from avid viewer to champion. The PhD student in AI and ...

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When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jane Charlton, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Explore black hole discovery in astrophysics, from hidden stellar remnants to supermassive giants, and learn how scientists detect these invisible cosmic objects using light and gravitational waves.

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara ...