Category: Science

When you think of objects close to the sun, Mercury, the solar system’s innermost planet, probably comes to mind. But has any other object —

New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and Center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section

History is rife with lost treasures , from Aztec gold hidden during the Spanish conquest to the Ark of the Covenant , which vanished during

One of the most famous full moons of the year will climb into the eastern sky on Saturday, Sept. 26. This year, the Harvest Moon

In modern times we tend to think of lithium as powering smartphones and cars, yet its historical fame comes from its role as a mood

A “baby” exoplanet, discovered emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a nearby star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study reveals. The

Though the spiral galaxy in this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret.

NASA is moving forward with designing a new space telescope that can see even deeper into the infrared universe than the James Webb Space Telescope

In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I

MAUI, Hawaii — Engineers have built a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) audio chip for wearable devices that they say will let users engage with AI

A picture of a distant, shark-shaped cloud of gas in space has earned the top prize in a Royal Observatory Greenwich contest for amateur space

The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but others died.

A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.

Fusion-powered space travel has long held the promise of rapid trips across the solar system: Mars in weeks, Saturn in months, Pluto in years. For