Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei was born in Feb. 15, 1564, in Pisa. Often summarized as the father of modern science, certainly a polymath and a brilliant thinker who operated on a high ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS flaring dramatically months after its closest pass by ...

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A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

On 2 July, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose brightness varied rapidly during a routine sky survey. Its unusual signal ...

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Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope mission viewed 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, when researchers believed the brightening occurred due to a phenomenon associated with comets as they vent water, carbon ...