Far overhead, out of sight and mind for most people on Earth, two different robotic missions are on the cusp of a revolutionary new era in 21st-century spaceflight. One of the missions, Katalyst Space ...

China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar ...

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter ...

F orty-seven years ago U.S. President Jimmy Carter stood grinning in front of a set of 32 bulky solar panels. It was 1979, and the oil crisis had sent fuel costs skyrocketing. Car ...

Satellites could keep operating only because some of that debris would naturally, gradually drift down into Earth’s atmosphere, but some regions of orbit would essentially become unusable. The point ...

Two American companies are pursuing rival manufacturing strategies for these long-promised cells in an industry China dominates ...

AI decodes the mathematical ‘fingerprints’ of famous jazz musicians, from Chick Corea to Thelonious Monk A master musician’s ...

It is estimated that over the next five years or so a significant amount of fissionable material could be taken from the dismantled weapons and used to fuel nuclear power plants, thereby helping to ...

The conservative think tank’s report claims that high-intensity and elite sports training has lasting effects on menstrual cycles and fertility ...

Zipline’s tethered delivery system lowers packages from the sky. Now it has to show that people want the service ...

Golden Dome’s most audacious element would require a vast constellation of weapons that does not yet exist. Defense companies are already lining up to build it ...