Speaking of families, Lake Scott State Park is basically a natural playground for kids. Instead of staring at screens, they can explore canyons, collect interesting rocks (and then inevitably leave ...

Its lesser-traveled paths wind through stands of hemlock and white pine so old they seem to exude wisdom through their resinous scent. Water enthusiasts find their paradise on Pawtuckaway Lake, where ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Long before GPS, explorers used the stars to cross oceans and deserts. Here’s how they turned the night sky into a ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

The closest approach of comet 3I/ATLAS to Earth will happen on Friday, 19 December 2025, at a distance of 1.797478 ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Recent observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show that it has developed a faint blueish hue, hinting at a ...