Historical observations by Tycho Brahe (1572) and Johannes Kepler (1604) documented the transient appearance of "new stars," later identified as supernovae, which profoundly challenged prevailing ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...

If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." according to NASA"s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. FEMA issued a letter of final determination for the city’s ...

A new report on a lawsuit over canceled DLC for Aspyr's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 remaster has revealed some much bigger details about the KOTOR remake and what Lucasfilm Games has ...

WASHINGTON – By allowing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map, the Supreme Court has kickstarted a nationwide partisan arms race over who holds a critical level of power in ...

The Indiana Senate rejected mid-decade redistricting today, capping off a bitter state fight for control of Congress that has divided the GOP, spurred violent threats and dramatically changed the ...

An illustration of multicolored tangle of threads within a small black sphere. A 3D illustration shows DNA packaged into the nucleus, scientists with the 4D Nucleome project are now building accurate ...

Sick of getting lost in the Minneapolis skyway? This new interactive map should help. Skyway.run fills the gap left by many maps in downtown Minneapolis buildings that have not been updated in years.