With the teams facing off in a play-in showdown, is is a sign of the Charlotte Hornets’ growth or the Miami Heat’s regression ...

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

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There’s a whole menu of different energy sources to choose from in generating electric power—coal, gas, wind, and so on—and some are worse for the planet than others. But regardless of where we gather ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

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Supermassive black holes are among the most enigmatic objects in the universe. They typically weigh millions or even billions ...

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Nearly a month after a student was stabbed at St. James High School near Myrtle Beach, it is still unclear how the 15-year-old who allegedly stabbed him managed to have a knife on school property.

Northern Arizona’s Grand Canyon is one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders, stretching along 277 miles of the 1,450 ...

It transports far more than 100 times as much water as all of the Earth's rivers combined: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current rushes around the southern continent unhindered by land masses and is ...

Scientists find that water on the moon likely built up gradually over billions of years, collecting as ice in permanently shadowed craters.