The best time to watch what many call the best meteor shower of the year is coming up. The Perseid meteor shower has already begun, but the peak time to watch it in the U.S. is the night of Aug. 11-12 ...

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First second, The Big Bang is the most widely accepted theory in the scientific community to explain the birth of the universe. By applying known laws of physics and taking advantage of the huge ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

The darkly dressed hooded man - the one with the silver alien hanging from his neck and the deranged eyeball glasses that blinked on and off - suddenly began hurling objects into the crowd. Milky Ways ...

On Dec. 19, 3I/ATLAS will be about 1.8 astronomical units away (170 million miles), almost twice as far as the average ...

In the eyes of Alex Filippenko, a renowned astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, there are two types of science fiction shows: science fiction and extreme science fiction. "A lot ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, researchers say. That may run counter to our instincts, which recoil at ...

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PORTSMOUTH — A city woman is being held on $50,000 cash bail following her arraignment Monday for a felony alleging her responsibility for the heroin overdose death of 22-year-old Portsmouth High ...

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Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, researchers say. That may run counter to our instincts, which recoil at the thought of ...