Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than ...

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When Juno passed behind Jupiter from Earth's perspective, its radio signal traveled through the planet's atmosphere before ...

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A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Amazon Leo satellites are generally not visible to the naked eye but still could obstruct astronomical observations. The ...