November marks the start of king tide season, when the marine waters of Western WA get their highest astronomical high tides ...

Have you ever wondered how long it took our sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

This particular shower comes from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which takes about 33 years to orbit around the sun and back near ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a ...

In just over five months, the University of Iowa will be launching its TRACERS mission which currently stands as the largest grant ever awarded to the university. In 2019, Dr. Kletzing with University ...

The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

Friday night's beaver moon will be the last of four consecutive supermoons to loom over Wyoming in 2024. There won't be ...