It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Former SpaceX flight software engineer Stefan Moluf explains how he got to do the physics for the new space sim from ...

The event features presentations by the Appleton teacher and the NTC employee who helped get an Appleton student's experiment ...

Giant atoms, artificial atoms larger than the interacting wavelength of light, exhibit decoherence-free behavior, but what ...

Get exclusive access to the Calgary Herald ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

For seventy years, one stubborn physics problem has stood between fusion’s promise and practical reactors. That puzzle, how to keep violent runaway electrons from shredding the inside of a tokamak, ...

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

The science-fiction-like dream is being driven by AI and space industry leaders who are growing increasingly worried that ...