With its longer, cooler nights, Autumn is an excellent time of year for stargazing, taking in a half-dozen meteor showers (including a potential meteor storm and fireball swarm), and possibly even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you looked to the skies during the early evening of Nov. 4, you saw the nearly full moon, the usual array of stars, and a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a remarkable feat in the field of exoplanet studies by creating the first-ever 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere. This alien world, subjected to such ...

Friendly rivalries between Washington and Oregon include many aspects of Northwest life, from college football to urban hipsterism (best microbrew? coziest kombucha culture?) to record rainfall. The ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...