Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston added six artworks worth nearly $700,000 to its fledgling Islamic art collection during a gala Friday night. Guests at “Into the Mystical Realm” voted to acquire a ...

Four days after launching on its third-ever mission, China's mysterious Shenlong robotic space plane has apparently deployed 6 unknown objects in orbit. Some of them appear to be emitting signals.

You often have to make quick judgments about the number of objects you encounter in the world. You might see a group of people walking toward you. It is useful to know whether there are roughly five, ...

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We have discovered thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, while the number of planets in the Solar System has remained at eight – but our discovery of more might not yet be over. A team of ...