As Quirks & Quarks celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bob McDonald looks back at a half century of science and peers forward to the next 50 years.

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are made up of fast-moving, magnetized plasma.

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the country's ...

Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, geophysicist Vashan Wright analyzed data from NASA’s InSight lander, co-authoring a ...

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...