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American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Astronomers have detected a rogue planet roughly the size of Saturn wandering alone through the Milky Way. Unlike most ...

American philosopher Quine wrote, “As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

Rubin Observatory, which is set to kick off full operations later this spring, an international team of astronomers has ...

Researchers uncover deep geothermal potential beneath a Manchester car park that could power thousands of homes with clean ...

NASA and Breakthrough Listen issue a final verdict on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Is it an alien spaceship? Read the ...

Stand on solid ground and it feels obvious that “down” points toward the center of the planet and “up” leads to the sky. Yet ...