Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is distinguished by its prominent rings. However, sometimes these rings… go missing.

ShareMother of the 19-year-old auxiliary nurse, Isioma Nwayalani who was allegedly killed by a vigilante man attached to the anti-cultism unit at Okpanam, in Oshimili North Local Government Area, near ...

Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator. His Bad Astronomy Blog has been hosted on Discover Magazine, Slate, and SYFY.com, and is now a newsletter with over 21,000 readers.

Most us need to plait a horse or pony’s mane at some stage — and the more you do it the better, and quicker, you get at ...

“We’re looking at the most aggressively anti-science government the United States has ever had,” astronomer Phil Plait told ...

Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator. His Bad Astronomy Blog has been hosted on Discover Magazine, Slate, and SYFY.com, and is now a newsletter with over 21,000 readers.

I remember once going to a restaurant and, being pretty hungry, ordering the biggest burger on their menu. I grossly overestimated my appetite; what arrived at my table was a ridiculously huge ...

There's a variety of astronomical events in 2025 well worth planning a trip around this year—whether that means driving to the closest national park for a meteor shower or booking a cruise to ...

Over the past 20 years or so many of us social observer types have been writing about the horrific chasms separating the educated class (people with college degrees) from the working class (people ...

Teaching Evolution Has a Bright Future in the U.S. A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in the U.S.’s classrooms ...