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This 3,500-year-old covered wagon is the best-preserved example in the world of this ancient form of wheeled transport.

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest scale. It would precede the field of nanotechnology by decades.

The simple mistakes every stargazing newbie makes — avoid these traps and you'll get the best out of your telescope from night one!

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.

In this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.

You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.

Our sun is huge, at least compared to Earth and the other planets. So is it really a dwarf?

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was murdered.

From Orion and Taurus to Auriga and Perseus, here are 10 easy sets of stars to find in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky.

The Coconucos volcanic chain is a mountain ridge dotted with at least 14 volcano craters, including one that is active and erupted in December 2025.