Newly published research shows that the domain name system—a fundamental part of the web—can be exploited to hide malicious ...

HK's LGBTQ community has reluctantly rallied behind a government plan to expand rights for some same-sex couples, with ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO ...

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, ...

Binary star orbits are oriented randomly. Sometimes, it happens that a telescope's line of sight aligns with the plane a binary star system orbits on.

Scientists believe Triton could have been captured from the Kuiper Belt, where many binary systems are present. In terms of the Moon's origin, the binary capture theory posits that Earth captured an ...

This study presents useful findings on how the transient absence of visual input (i.e., darkness) affects tactile neural encoding in the somatosensory cortex. The evidence supporting the authors' ...

How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.

On a summer Friday evening in Brownsville ’s Joe & Tony Oliveira Park, a pandemonium of squawking parrots is charming enough to cause children playing with tablets to look away from their screens.