The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Trump doesn’t use numbers the way most of us do, as “things that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided,” as Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman put it. Rather, he uses them as ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

For over two months, astronomers have been closely following an interstellar object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — as it screams through the solar system at a breakneck speed. The unusual visitor was only the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Objects such as 'Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that ...