Science

The country’s oldest and largest urban research park is about to get even bigger. University City Science Center has announc ...

NASA plans to send a three-year orbital mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa as early as 2022. It’s at the top of the list of mos ...

500,000 quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) have been detected – including 100 binaries, two triples, and now – one quad. A ...

The dwarf planet Pluto will be visited by New Horizons this summer, with the closest approach scheduled for June 14th. This complet ...

Astronomers use data from the Keck Telescope to identify the most distant object in the universe ever observed – it’s an eigh ...

Last Thursday, after 11 years in space, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft made a scheduled crash onto the surface of Mercury, but not bef ...

This Friday, May 1st is a cross-quarter day – halfway between the first day of spring and the first day of summer. It’s a day ...

Candidates for mayor of Philadelphia are promising four more years of open, data-driven governance. Speaking to a crowd at Philly ...

Friday marks the 5th Annual city-wide Astronomy Night, which is the first event of the 2015 Philadelphia Science Festival. Commun ...

The University of Pennsylvania is rebooting one of its most tradition-bound departments. The recently announced Price Lab for the ...

Four planets of our solar system have rings – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Astronomers can now identify at least two non-pl ...

Seventh- and eighth-graders at Alexander Adaire School in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood are getting an extra education in co ...

Newly discovered dwarf galaxies orbiting our Milky Way may offer opportunities to gain insight about so-called dark matter (the invisible ...

US 708 now holds the speed record for extragalactic stars: 2.7 million miles/hour! In this case it’s thought the velocity was provi ...

Tomorrow marks the 25th year of Hubble Space Telescope operations. It has provided hundreds of thousands of images, identified quasars, d ...