Science

Inside the Quest to Confirm A Strange 60-Year-Old Theory About Stonehenge

Archaeological evidence suggests Stonehenge also aligns with moonrise and moonset.

The Iconic Hubble Telescope Just Turned 34 And We Can’t Stop Staring At Its Birthday Snapshot

This pretty and puffy Nebula is more than what it seems.

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter’s Moon Io

Loki Patera is like no place on Earth.

A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild

A massive star in M82 lived fast, died young, and left an extremely magnetic corpse.

Look! 3.7 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal The Oldest Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field

Our planet was a different place when these rocks formed.

Voyager 1 Just Sent Its First Coherent Message Back to NASA In Months

A clever programming fix has cured the spacecraft's electronic aphasia.

Look Up! April’s Full Pink Moon Is Finally Here

Blue Moons aren't really blue, and the Pink Moon isn't really pink, but at least the full Moon is really full.

Physicists Just Mapped A Stellar, Galactic Burp of Astronomical Proportions

“That’s a lot of gas!”

Rogue Waves: New Tech Captured This Elusive, Freakish Phenomenon In Ocean Waves

Stories of unimaginable mountains of water as tall as ten-storey buildings have populated maritime folklore and literature for centuries.

David Cronenberg’s Freakiest Sci-Fi Movie Is Hiding Some Bizarre, Real Science

Overshadowed at the time by The Matrix, eXistenZ floundered at the box office but went on to become a cult classic.