Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity.

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

There once was a dream of cities in space — vast cylindrical habitats, self-sufficient and populated by millions who would ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Uranus' moon Ariel could have had liquid water 100 miles deep, hidden under its icy crust, possibly making it yet another ...

Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine ...

Mason Peck, an aerospace engineer at Cornell, was trying to test innovative designs in spacecraft when a stop-work order hit.

Whirling dust devils and winds on Mars can move at an unexpected 99 miles per hour. The dust they send into the atmosphere could affect future missions.