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If you were to look at Saturn through a teelescope today, you’d be forgiven for being disapopinted: the rings that define the icon look of the planet have temporarily disappeared. But why?

Why Have Saturn’s Rings…

A recent discovery by an international team of astronomers has revealed an enormous, spiral galaxy unlike any other yet observed in the Universe.

Led by researchers from Christ University in Bangalore, this team found something strange and…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming (AP) — A new thermal vent spewing steam in the air at Yellowstone National Park is gaining attention, mainly because it’s visible from a road rather than any significant change in the park famous for its…

There’s something special about the partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025.

For North Americans in the right place at the right time — and who get clear skies — there’s a chance to see the unique spectacle of “solar horns,” a phenomenon…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

The composite image makes it…

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known as Prototaxites, this extinct organism has confounded scientists for over a century. Now, new study evidence suggests it could belong to a completely…

A team of international scientists will soon begin drilling beneath the sea floor off Nantucket in search of a vast freshwater aquifer that it not only believes exists, but could one day be tapped and used by humans.

Decades in the making, the…

Chimpanzees act as engineers in their daily tasks, new research shows. A team of researchers have discovered that chimpanzees are able to choose materials to make tools based on their structural and mechanical properties.

The chimpanzees studied…

Kevin Rader is the senior preceptor in statistics and associate director of undergraduate studies.

Typically, you’re talking about the perfect bracket of…