Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

Dating isn't just about who or how, but why. New research points to 6 key reasons people seek love and why your “why” matters, because not all reasons for love are created equal.

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

The polar regions offer some of the harshest and most dynamic ecosystems on Earth. These areas are defined by their extreme ...

Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it’s too late the best ...

The focal mechanism provides seismological constraints on the geological faults that generate the earthquakes and thus is important for regional seismotectonic research. Focal mechanism calculation ...

It is well known that, since April, the greenback has behaved a bit like an emerging market currency rather than the world economy’s monetary anchor, and there are plenty of reports that international ...

Non-blind rotary motion deblurring (RMD) aims to restore a latent image from its blurred image. Since the integration path of rotary motion blurring (RMB) is a circle, RMD is modelled as a typical ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached some of Earth’s remotest corners.

In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex off its North Pole perch.