The fight over the census is not really about counting people. It is about where political power is anchored in America. The Constitution requires the census to count all persons residing in the ...

I'm a reformed winter-hater. I grew up in a beach town in the U.S. where summer reigned supreme. And I, like so many others, used to bemoan the changing seasons as the nights got longer and the ...

The sun's visible disk has been perfectly free from sunspots for the first time since June 2022, suggesting the current solar ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an "astrosphere" ...

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

Pierre-Simon Laplace’s rule of succession shows that probability can quantify the sunrise, but modern understanding shifts the question toward what could actually prevent it from rising. 4 injured ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was full-on erupting into space in December 2025, after its close flyby of the sun, causing it to significantly brighten. Even water ice was quickly sublimating into gas in ...