It’s tough to be an iconic landmark in a movie. The poor Empire State Building, for instance, has had a giant gorilla climb up it and had an alien mothership blow it to smithereens with a massive ...

As a computer recorded her brain waves and heart beats in June 1977, Ann Druyan thought about the history of Earth, its inhabitants and humankind’s progress as a civilization. Try as she might to ...

Quite often in astronomy objects that appear at first glance to be ordinary and uninteresting are very much the opposite in reality. Such is the case in this month’s early evening Colorado sky for the ...

IMAGINE that you have worked for years to develop a strain of rice that contains Vitamin A in a world where an estimated 100 million children under age 5 suffer from Vitamin A deficiency. This ...

Astronomers in Switzerland report unexpectedly spotting a rare kind of exoplanet around a Sun-like star less than 50 light-years distant. Described as having “no known equivalent,” the planet—called ...