Using the world’s largest, fully steerable radio telescope — the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in W.Va. — an international team of researchers has given ...

When the Cape Mendocino earthquake struck on April 25, 1992, magnitude was not the only parameter of interest to seismologists. Until Charles Richter developed a magnitude scale, the primary method of ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. These maps come from an atlas ...

An innovative way of mapping the large-scale structure in the Universe sidesteps the need to observe millions of galaxies individually. The approach holds promise for both astrophysical and ...

Researchers from the U.K.’s National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) are using Routescene’s UAV lidar technology to map radioactive hotspots in Chernobyl’s Red Forest. Professor Tom Scott, from the ...

Our universe is teeming with invisible light. Beyond the visible spectrum, space is a colorful mess of radio signals and microwaves fired off by flaring "suns," collapsing stars, crackling magnetic ...