THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM this spring will host the exhibit “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses,” paying tribute to the Dutch fashion designer.

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The night of January 21, 2026, will bring one of the most enchanting skywatching events of the season. A slender crescent ...

In Astronomy’s 2022 list of the 20 greatest astronomers of all time, Associate Editor Michael Bakich put Johannes Kepler, born Dec. 27, 1571, in Germany, at No. 3. He was ranked behind only his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun shines above the Earth’s horizon. Perihelion, the point when Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs annually in early January ...

Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

A new study led by an international team of researchers has proposed Triboelectric Nanogenerators ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

When the object now known as 1I/ʻOumuamua streaked through the inner Solar System in 2017, it instantly rewrote the playbook ...

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