John Steele Gordon on “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party” by Edward Dolnick.

A new radio telescope on the top of Germany's Zugspitze mountain will help unravel the secrets of the universe. The project ...

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

NASA’s Juno mission uncovers the true source of Io’s volcanic activity, revealing localized magma chambers instead of a ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

The original structure provided the optimal setting for Galileo Galilei's presentation of the telescope; it also served as a stage for tight rope walkers who would humor the doge (the highest ...

NASA reveals new information. Thanks to the Juno probe mission, a mystery about Jupiter's moon Io that lasted over 40 years ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

Scientists with the Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered ...

NASA's Juno mission has revealed that each of Io's volcanoes is likely fueled by its own magma chamber, not a global magma ocean. This conclusion was drawn from precise gravity measurements during ...