Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

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Researchers with the Media Ecosystem Observatory, based at McGill University in Montreal, detected the remnants of a bot farm ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at Dec. 18, 1842: U.S. Senator Nathan B. Scott was born. By 1900, Scott ...

An 1,800-year-old gold ring with a carving depicting Venus, a Roman goddess associated with victory, has been discovered in ...

Here’s how it works. On Dec. 20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded. This astronomical observatory was the brainchild of the solar astronomer George Ellery Hale. He was a professor ...

Record 1984 snowpack threatened to flood Burley until farmers and volunteers dug 40 miles of emergency canals in three days ...

For centuries, scientists had the wrong idea about what birds did to survive the winter. Then, in 1822, the truth revealed ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of ...

Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...