If NASA’s ambitious lunar exploration plans succeed, scientists will cover the moon with sensors—and find answers to several long-standing questions about the inner solar system ...

Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post about using nuclear bombs to cut a new channel in the Strait of Hormuz ...

Christine Keiner is the Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births ...

Fresh fruits and vegetables can often come with toxic residues from pesticides, some of which contain so-called forever ...

The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before ...

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

Fresh-water-saturated sediment or bedrock may extend as deep as three or four kilometers below the Great Salt Lake’s basin, a ...

A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it ...

The eye is essentially a biological camera. It uses the light around us to create spectacular images that help us navigate ...