Science

The 449th anniversary of Galileo’s birth back in 1564 comes up this Friday, February 15th and he is celebrating with an asteroid pa ...

Today is Clyde Tombaugh’s 107th birth anniversary. Born in 1906 , he was an American astronomer, rocket scientist and telescope bui ...

Angel investors are rich people with a high tolerance for risk. They get in early on promising new ventures that either fizzle out o ...

The amazing universe of Brown Dwarf stars: the most numerous of all in the galaxy, they form like normal stars do but lack the mass neede ...

Mars Science Lab Curiosty has discovered fractures filled with calcium sulfates in sedimentary rock units. On earth, fractures like the ...

Tips for mapping a path through the winter Milky Way? Since the Milky Way is now stretched across from the SE up to the NW, find a basic ...

For over a decade, a unique gun law in New Jersey has been on the books. It requires that all new handguns sold in the state be equipped ...

So what happens with all the inner planets, rocky planets, gas giant planets, outer planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, exoplanets and ...

Starting in the fall, a new $100 million tower will be sprouting up in University City.  ...

Alfie Hanssen is a big fan of Philadelphia’s yearly spectacle. “I remember last year just sitting in lawn chairs in th ...

This year, “Curiosity” rover arrived safely on Mars and is making its way to the stream beds of Mt. Sharp, looking for life- ...

If you need help figuring out the new Kindle or iPad you just got for Christmas, there’s a help desk for that. The Free Libr ...

The end of the year is when most people do ...

The closest star to the earth (not our Sun, of course) looks like it has FIVE planets, an exciting development that opens all sorts of ex ...

This Wednesday marks the start of the Saturnalia celebrations. Saturnalia, the Roman mid-winter festival, was used by early Christians t ...