A massive brush fire is threatening one of Australia's premier observatories, and scientists down-under are worried that priceless telescopes and other scientific equipment may be lost to the flames.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A LUNAR ECLIPSE? A lunar eclipse happens when the moon — slowly moving in its orbit around the Earth — goes into the Earth’s shadow. Sometimes it goes through merely the outside, ...

The largest, deepest Women's World Cup has dealt the United States its toughest group in history. The U.S., ranked No. 1 in the world, was drawn into Group D with No. 5 Sweden, No. 10 Australia and No ...

The Milky Way (left) and Andromeda (right) galaxies will collide and merge over the next several billion years NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger A huge ...

As viewers in anywhere other than Antarctica we are only going to get a partial view and this is about as much as we’ll see from this eclipse. About as far as the moon will cover the sun here in ...

The moon turns red causing a phenomenon known as a 'blood moon', during a total lunar eclipse in Miami, Florida Getty Images of the blood moon during the first total lunar eclipse of 2014 have been ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Deadline is here, just three days away! We ...

To understand the formation and evolution of far-away galaxies, scientists use some of the largest and most expensive equipment on the planet to look back in time. Dr Amanda Bauer, a Super Science ...

A final cosmic Valentine’s Day wish from the wonderful Sixty Symbols site: a video valentine. Check out the other videos at the Sixty Symbols site, too. The woman introducing the video is my friend ...

Don’t forget, the thin crescent Moon and Venus will make a very tight pair tonight! According to my software, they are closest together around 5:00 tonight Mountain time (midnight UT), which is still ...