Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

NASA has found fewer than a third of the near-Earth asteroids large enough to destroy a city, and the agency’s best tool for ...

A byproduct of aging nuclear weapons stockpiles could help power spacecraft on missions lasting decades. Americium-241, an isotope that can be separated from aged plutonium, is being studied as a ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Amy Shira Teitel says past Moon missions delivered a clear purpose and impact, while Artemis II lacks clarity, ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

Gene Roddenberry is a name as popular as J.R.R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert, but unlike those two creators, Roddenberry's name is on popular IPs.

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...