A rare celestial portrait captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an extraordinary and eerie sight: two ...

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...

Ancient Greece mathematician Archimedes believed a death ray was plausible, so a middle school student from Canada put the concept to the test. Brenden Sener of Ontario won multiple medals for his ...

Archimedes wrote about harnessing the Sun’s energy to create a death ray. And Sener wanted in. Sener has since earned multiple medals for his attempt to bring the ancient device to life. In his view, ...

A Teenager Built Archimedes’ Mythical Death Ray—and It May Actually Work The young scientist’s twist on a legendary ancient weapon might just re-write history.

Astronomy NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meetings — and scientists are feeling the effects News By Monisha Ravisetti published 26 June 2025 ...

Astronomer Willice Obonyo describes how scholarship programmes seeded a fresh crop of radioastronomers in Africa.

Globular cluster M15 hides within it a planetary nebula, Pease 1. Observers with large scopes and steady skies can find it.

Mercer University physics and astronomy professor Matthew Marone says the sighting is not uncommon, and it's likely connected to the annual Bootid meteor shower.

The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

A mysterious and powerful blast of radio waves detected last year, suspected to originate far beyond the Milky Way came from a long-dead NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit.