An international team has launched an ambitious program aimed at mapping exoplanets located around the "hot Neptune desert," ...

From the mundane to the iconic, the physical to the symbolic, the striking presence of chairs in the history of science begs to be acknowledged and understood. By Omar W. Nasim / MIT Press Published ...

When treasure hunters Mario Renner and Henry Westphal turned on their metal detectors in 1999 and started sweeping the ground ...

The total solar eclipse of July 28, 1851, is historically significant as potentially the first to generate organized eclipse expeditions. The eclipse's path of totality extended across a broad ...

Looking into space can be pretty daunting. How do we make sense of the vast expanse above our heads, the millions of stars we might be able to see, and the billions more we can’t? This new series ...

In this “We the People” segment, FOX19 NOW’s Philip Krinsky discusses the history and impact of the Cincinnati Observatory.

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

What if everything we're taught about the history of astronomy and physics is wrong? In his new book, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022), James Poskett, a historian ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams. One of his favorite endeavors was viewing celestial objects and events in space. While European countries ...

Geek of the Week profiles the characters of Pacific Northwest tech, science, games, innovation and more. See the Geek of the Week archive for more. by Kurt Schlosser on Jul 3, 2021 at 9:00 am July 2, ...