It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

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Astronomers discover PicII‑503, a 14-billion-year-old star carrying primordial elements, challenging theories of early star ...

This time it's not a transhuman supersoldier or some eldritch entity, but an old man with a big crab-claw arm who is *very* good at killing orks.

Equinox baby, your remaining challenges for 2026 are almost all packed into the next two to three weeks. Hunker down and you ...

Earlier estimates of its age were around 7 billion years, but a new study suggests it’s much older.

Following its debut in Seattle, FUTURE of SPACE presents The Universe Is Absurd! with William Shatner and Neil ...

By reconstructing ancient nitrogen-processing enzymes, scientists are uncovering new clues about how early life survived on a ...

Quite a Newtonian moment it was for him. The setting, however, was not under an apple tree, but along the banks of the ...

In 2015, Hollywood revamped the Jurassic Park franchise with a fresh take. Jurassic World ushered fans into a new era, one where no character had learned from the mistakes of the past. In the first ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Something old, something new and sometimes something completely unexpected — nontraditional thrift stores are giving secondhand a new spin.