It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

The word “big” doesn’t mean much once you leave Earth. Our planet feels massive until you stack it next to Jupiter. Jupiter feels enormous until you compare it to the Sun. And the Sun? That barely ...

Should the universe “choose” braneworld, it could mean that your senses (which perceive fewer dimensions) are keeping you from experiencing the full number of dimensions surrounding you. This could ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

You know that feeling when you walk into a store and immediately realize you’ve underestimated how much time you’re about to spend there? That’s CommunityAid in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and you’re ...

In Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, the audience isn’t introduced to the Xenomorph right off the bat, but to the glorious Nostromo travelling through space. Utilizing industrial scrap and ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and fill the air with the ...

AN ICONIC model from the 2000s is set to return – some 21 years after it was discontinued. Audi has confirmed it will bring back the A2 name later this year, reintroducing it as an electric ...

Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape scientists’ understanding of the cosmos.

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmology. Columnist Leah Crane ...