There is no other Cabinet position that has to engage with lawmakers in Congress across so many disparate technical issues, ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

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Scientists believe the glow could be the result of unique chemical changes triggered by the energy from the auroras.

The exoplanet, which has been named HD 20794 d, orbits in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun.

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An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally ...

The rate of the ocean’s warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, according to researchers. While ocean ...

MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary: the plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light years.