Astronomers have captured a rare and remarkably close view of a giant planet circling a pair of tightly bound suns, offering ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

The Northwestern Innovation Institute (NI Institute) at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management today announced the Northwestern Innovation Prize for Human-Machine Partnership (NI Prize ...

Stranger Things 5 introduced the idea of using a wormhole to time travel. Here's why that could lead to a Back to the Future ending. The post Will STRANGER THINGS 5 Wormhole Its Way to a BACK TO THE ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet ...

Hot Jupiters, the blisteringly close cousins of our own Jupiter, were once treated as cosmic misfits. Now their orbital ...

College walk-on athletes remain a fixture of Americana, but a recent settlement has put that storyline in doubt.

China’s growing capabilities have drawn pharmaceutical multinationals to the country to either buy or co-develop innovative drugs. China’s share of out-licensing deals to the US and Europe has risen ...

WBUR film critic Erin Trahan selects five films that brought joy through the experience of seeing them in a theater. "Those ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

I’ve written about the Pleiades star cluster before (“Orion and the Pleiades,” Jan. 12, 2023), in which I focused on the ancient Greek myth of the hunter Orion endlessly pursuing Mom, Dad and seven ...

The highest King Tides of the year arrived in Humboldt County last week, offering both a spectacle and a warning. Unlike waves or swell, which are wind-driven, tides are the daily rise and fall of the ...