Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

See, for example, JWST’s latest images of the iconic Helix Nebula, also known as the “Eye of God,” a stellar grave site some ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals     and the strong performances of its cast.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

In a paper published January 21 in Nature, a team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have run complex numerical simulations of plasma flows that, while leading to turbulence, ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Both humans and LLMs show modest metacognitive sensitivity : When explicitly prompted for confidence ratings, high confidence ...