There are thousands upon thousands of celestial objects, discovered by hundreds of different individuals over the course of centuries. While many of them have easy to remember names—like the Orion ...

Some dogs might be smarter than others. Hungarian researchers at Eötvös Loránd University are gathering evidence on this topic with a "Genius Dog Challenge." The nonprofit research project has been ...

One measure of intelligence is being able to learn the name of an object after only hearing it a few times, a cognitive ability known as 'fast mapping'. Humans can quickly associate an object's ...

(Image: Halley's Comet as captured by the European Space Agency's Giotto spacecraft in 1986.) The International Astronomical Union—the group responsible for the official names of space ...