For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

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Scientists suggest that dry ice on Mars may move and burrow beneath the surface, creating patterns similar to sandworms from Dune and shedding light on the planet’s changing landscape.

Here’s the full moon calendar for 2025 with dates, traditional names, and what each lunar phase means for skywatchers.

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

Scientists Found 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans US rejects bid to buy 167 ...