Astronomy

The backlash raises a bigger question for science communicators: where should AI fit into their work?

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other animals

One in six people are thought to experience loneliness, and that can have a serious knock-on effect on their mental and physical health

What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show?

Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn

What causes unusual knots of gas and dust in

What's happening to this meteor?

What's happening to this cloud?

The spent upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has struck the Moon, illustrating the hazard posed by debris in cislunar space. This problem will increase as launches to orbit and to the Moon become more common in the coming years.

This new cache of material includes footage of a U.S. military plane’s infrared display recorded during an exercise over the Gulf of Oman in 2021

Homer Dávila Gutierrez, director of SKYCR.ORG, has identified a gravitational arc candidate in the galaxy cluster MACS J0308.9+2645 from public data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The object had not been previously reported and is located at a photometric redshift close to 4.4. The preprint is available on arXiv and the manuscript is under review in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

All the tips and tricks you need to watch and photograph this incredible celestial phenomenon

A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales

This sweet film uncovers bitter disagreements among urban ecology and conversation experts that go way beyond just one owl

This technique could lead to new treatments for antibiotic-resistant bugs, but some scientists say the technology could be misused

A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature.

In twilight, watch bold Venus and tiny Spica approach each other to meet September 1st. And check whether you'll be able to see anything of Wednesday's solar eclipse!

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View the August 12th total solar eclipse from anywhere — the livestream options are plentiful!

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