The Powerball jackpot rose to $1.15 billion for the Monday, Dec. 15, drawing after no one on Saturday, Dec. 13, took home the top prize. If a ticket matches all five numbers plus the Powerball in the ...

Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

Andrej Prša receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Apple has officially revealed that Japan's My Number Card can now be included in the Wallet app on iPhones with iOS 18.5 or later. The integration was first announced in May 2024. The new feature is ...

Have you ever wished you could generate interactive websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while programming in nothing but Python? Here are three frameworks that do the trick. Python has long had a ...

You may know that computers use binary code to represent, well … everything. Everything stored on your computer’s disk or solid-state drive is stored in binary form, a sequence of zeros and ones. All ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved, including ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

For the first time in more than 25 years, mathematicians have proven a new way to identify prime numbers, and in doing so developed a toolkit that could allow further advances in number theory. Prime ...