Tealight candles are small, round candles housed in thin metal or plastic cups. They are designed to liquefy completely while burning, which makes them practical and versatile. People often buy them ...

The best scented candles are as thoughtfully composed as your favorite cologne or perfume. Here are 15 of the best, from ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

Astronomers once struggled to measure the true size of the universe. Then came the discovery of Type Ia supernovae — explosions so consistent in brightness they could serve as “standard candles.” By ...

After a decade of construction, the new-and-improved super Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (sPHENIX) is officially ready for science as it passes a key “standard candle” ...

The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and is designed to precisely measure products of high-speed particle collisions ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director of the observatory, astrophysicist George Ellery Hale. Good timing for ...

If you keep candles around the house just in case the electricity goes out, there isn't much to worry about. Standard candles are only made with paraffin or sometimes soy wax, neither of which is ...

"[Two mid-century modern] lucite candles in a box of standard candles for $3.99! Almost passed them by," said the lucky shopper. "Good finds are getting hard to find, today was my lucky day." Lucite ...