10 of the best stargazing locations in North America

Here’s where to find very dark skies in the U.S. and Canada.
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Here’s where to find very dark skies in the U.S. and Canada.

The Milky Way is a spectacular sight in the summer skies but why does it look so much more brilliant than it does in the winter?

New research by Dr. Vanessa Gash into the gender pay gap finds strong divides across class, and that part-time work has the same negative lifetime impact on earning potential as long-term sickness.

The brains of politically extreme individuals, whether left- or right-leaning, appear to respond to and process political information in surprisingly similar ways, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper is titled “Politically extreme…

NASA has opened a new Orion Mission Evaluation Room at the Johnson Space Center to analyze in-flight spacecraft data and provide support for Artemis 2 and other future missions to the moon.

The USS Enterprise, a ‘Star Trek’ spaceship, is created from pumpkins as part of a German contest.

A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports analyzed three Maya children’s teeth. These teeth exhibited jade inlays, a practice typically reported in adult Pre-Hispanic Maya teeth.

The Butterfly Nebula, which is a planetary nebula resulting from the death of a sun-like star, has been caught creating large dust grains that could form planets.

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James Webb has revealed that the Butterfly Nebula hides a complex mix of gemstone-like crystals, fiery dust, and unexpected carbon molecules. The discovery may rewrite how we understand the chemistry that seeds planets and life itself.