Science

Yom Kippur is traditionally when, according to Jewish belief, God signs our fates in the Book of Life, judging our actions and deciding who lives and who dies. Also, asteroids are flying past Earth.

Keeping to a beat is linked to reproductive success in male rock hyraxes according to Bar-Ilan University researchers.

For years, scientists have been stumped as to what caused the golf ball-sized holes in the skull of one of the world's best-known dinosaur fossils.

When analyzing silicate glass formed on the Moon, researchers discovered craters where the substance was created by high-velocity meteorite impacts.

The Hubble Space Telescope was once NASA's flagship space telescope, but its lifespan is limited as its orbit continues to decay. SpaceX may be able to save it.

The image of Europa is especially significant because it is the first close-up picture in over 20 years of this Jovian moon, a cosmic object that has fascinated scientists for years.

The technique was developed by a team from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

New evidence suggests that there is liquid water beneath Mars' south polar ice cap, which is kept in a liquid state by geothermal heating.

The Milky Way, our galaxy, has about 150 globular clusters. Their history is not yet well understood by astronomers, and measuring their age can be extremely difficult. 

Polishook is an astronomer and planetary scientist at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science and is a noted expert in asteroids.