From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gone from a faint, anonymous smudge in survey data to one of the sharpest imaged visitors ...

Neptune, the most distant major planet in the Solar System, has finally given up one of its longest held secrets. After ...

Herald outdoors writer Susan Swarbrick shares 15 of her coolest Scottish winter escapes. So wrap up warm and check out her recommendations of ...

Pure Nevada glamour. Photo credit: jericl cat Here, authenticity doesn’t come with a premium surcharge. The landscape alone delivers million-dollar views completely free of charge – rolling sagebrush ...

The UW Medicine Seattle Marathon returns Nov. 30 with a brand-new course that is the talk of the local running community. UW Medicine Seattle Marathon and Half Marathon Both races begin at Fifth ...

The important questions in physics and astronomy change as we learn more about nature, and the rate of change has been increasing. The Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) seeks to inform the ...

Runners from around the globe will descend upon the City of Brotherly Love beginning November 22 for the annual Philadelphia Marathon, a two-day extravaganza of running that includes a half-marathon ...

"This signifies a major development in astronomy and physics." Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this would mark the ...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming coronal mass ejection is expected to slam into Earth today.