It’s true that there will be a fair amount of asteroid traffic near our planet in the hours leading up to and proceeding the historic transfer...
Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers...
NASA cut short a test of the core stage of Boeing's massive Space Launch System rocket on Saturday, leaving its future deep-space missions in flux.
A Velcro-like fastener with a microscopic design that looks like tiny mushrooms could mean advances for everyday consumers and scientific fields like robotics.
Even if you weren't a physics major, you've probably heard something about the Higgs boson.
Elon Musk's space company could send nearly 100 satellites to orbit in a single go this week.
Researchers slow down the dance of click beetles to better understand what makes them fly through the air. This understanding could inform future robot design.
Machines—like people—learn best when tasks are just hard enough
In a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters, astrophysicists show that a recently discovered excess of hard X-rays from a nearby group of isolated neutron...
Fossilized bone fragments found in northwest Patagonia could belong to a new species of super-sized titanosaur, a dinosaur family including some of the largest...