Sensors on a NASA spacecraft show that cosmic ray intensities have increased 19 percent this year, prompting scientists to rethink how much radiation shielding astronauts need.

The cause of the increase is a solar minimum, a deep lull in solar activity that began…

Antarctic plateau

A remote location on the Antarctic Plateau, known as Ridge A, is the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth, scientists have discovered.

Ridge A’s unique meteorological conditions were discovered by a team of Australian and U.S. scientists searching for the…

Black hole

An international team of scientists that includes two Washington University researchers have discovered very high energy gamma rays coming from an area close to a supermassive black hole.

The discovery took place in a galaxy, M87, which is about 50 million light…

The relationship between science and religion will be explored Friday, April 17 during a free lecture “Why Does the Pope Have an Astronomer?”

The lecture will be given by none other than the Pope’s astronomer himself, Brother Guy Consolmagno.

Consolmagno is a professional astronomer…