A flaming crater of gas has burned in Turkmenistan for decades. Satellite imagery suggests that the fires are decreasing, but the environmental implications are unclear.
The exoplanet census continues to grow at a prodigious rate, with 6,273 confirmed planets to date and close to 20,000 candidates awaiting confirmation. What’s more, the...
One man died and two were wounded early Sunday in a shootout outside a strip mall in unincorporated Florence-Firestone. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s...
Each new attack, like the London stabbings last week, brings a heightened sense of caution to an already wary population.
Our most massive satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been the center of a heated debate in the astrophysics community over the last few...
With the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs declining toward critically low levels, negotiators for California, Arizona and Nevada announced a new water-saving plan for the next two...
The tax proposal is being held up as a generational attempt to make the ultrawealthy pay more to society and potentially raise $500 million a year...
The Orion Nebula provides a master class in the study of stellar formation. Yet, many of its youngest stellar objects are still swaddled in their birth...
An Orange County mother faces an involuntary manslaughter charge in the death of an 81-year-old man who died weeks after her son allegedly struck him with...
Americans have soured on data centers, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How that will change our politics?