Mirror photo by Colette Costlow /
Glendale science teacher Ethan Maneval points to the lightbulb in the center of the projector system in the Glendale Junior Senior High School planetarium.
FLINTON — Each year, Glendale Junior Senior High School…

Mirror photo by Colette Costlow /
Glendale science teacher Ethan Maneval points to the lightbulb in the center of the projector system in the Glendale Junior Senior High School planetarium.
FLINTON — Each year, Glendale Junior Senior High School…

By Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa, University of Toyama
Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered…

The Moon is now a few days into the new cycle, so there is plenty to see when you look up in the sky tonight.
As of Friday, Dec. 26, the moon phase is Waxing…

by Riko Seibo
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025
Researchers from Beijing Institute of Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a theoretical model that links electrostatic…

by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025
NASA engineers continue attempts to regain contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter, which last communicated with Earth on Dec. 6. Working with the Deep Space Network, the team is…
Gillich, A. et al. Capillary cell-type specialization in the alveolus. Nature 586, 785–789 (2020).
Niethamer, T. K. et al. Defining the role of pulmonary endothelial cell heterogeneity in the…

At morning twilight on December 13, 2025 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, HAST), the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope captured images of comet ATLAS (3I/ATLAS; C/2025 N1), which is known to be an…

The Upper Paleolithic site of Mezhyrich, located in Cherkasy oblast, central Ukraine, is home to four remarkable mammoth bone structures. Ranging from 12 to 24 m2, they were intricately constructed using hundreds of mammoth bones and tusks. A…

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries.
Known as the Cosmic Christmas Tree, the cluster sits within NGC 2264, roughly 2,700…