Category: Science

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

When I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being left-handed, I

Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France ‪—‬ a discovery that suggests the small settlement was frequented

Interstellar space just got a little sweeter: A type of sugar called erythrulose has been found near the center of the Milky Way, according to

Researchers looking for the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy.

QUICK FACTS Name: Elamite helmet with divine figures What it is: A bronze helmet with gold decorations Where it is from: Southwestern Iran When it

Easily identified by the spectacular band of dark dust that partially obscures its bright core, Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is characterized by

The two major earthquakes that struck Venezuela just 39 seconds apart on June 24 had slightly different epicenters in north-central Venezuela. The first (M7.2) struck

Quick facts What it is: Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128) Where it is: 11 million light-years away, in the constellation Centaurus When it was shared:

On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the moon in their Orion spacecraft, disappearing from

Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement

Archaeologists have discovered 18 ancient tombs in an Egyptian town along the Mediterranean Sea. The tombs ‪—‬ which were unearthed in Marina el-Alamein (also spelled

Albert Einstein gave us the theory of relativity , explained the photoelectric effect and predicted the existence of gravitational waves . He revolutionized our understanding