Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

This week in science: the genetic secrets of the 'vampire squid from hell'; a dinosaur superhighway; the longest known ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

The U.S. has entered a new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where engineers brought together the ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

W ith around five years left to go before it leaves Earth's orbit and is crashed into the ocean, NASA has announced that the ...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced Tuesday the appointment of Taylor Jordan to lead the Office of Space ...

Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies (Feb. 6, $26, ISBN 978-0-226-84932-4) ...