The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad and James H. Andrew Railroad Museum in Boone, Iowa, offers exactly this kind of therapeutic escape – a perfect antidote to our notification-saturated lives. Remember ...

Tucked away in the charming suburb of Worthington sits a time machine disguised as a museum – the Ohio Railway Museum offers visitors a chance to step back into an era when the rhythmic chug of steam ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have found a way to use light to control and read tiny quantum ...

X-ray telescopes catch a black hole firing ultra-fast winds at 60,000 km/s, revealing how flares trigger extreme cosmic ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

When ice melts into water, it happens quickly, with the transition from solid to liquid being immediate. However, very thin ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Applying artificial intelligence approaches to a 15-year-long seismic record reveals how all the small earthquakes that occur in the Yellowstone region are related in space and time.