China successfully launched the Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship on Friday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space ...

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Copernicus proved the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, challenging centuries of belief and risking persecution for ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

Greg Miraglia and Jeff Nardinelli of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP discuss the potential and successes of low-orbit ...

The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

Here are twelve theories that, while sounding like they’re straight out of a sci-fi novel, are actually supported by real ...

A University of Michigan-led team has discovered quantum oscillations within an insulator’s bulk, overturning conventional understanding of material behavior and hinting at a mysterious “new duality” ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.