Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle ...
NASA and the European Space Agency plan to bring samples back from Mars. Could they harbor a type of life that scientists ...
New modeling of the early solar system is reshaping the familiar story of how the Moon formed, suggesting that Earth and the ...
A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...
At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle ...
A rare alignment between Earth and Saturn will make the gas giant’s rings appear so thin that they’ll be nearly invisible.
Wormholes sit at the edge of serious physics and science fiction, yet the math behind them is precise enough to suggest that ...
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...