Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually difficult to spot.

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

Humanity has already flung machines into interstellar space, but sending people is a different problem entirely. The physics of propulsion, the fragility of the human body, and the sheer size of the ...

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When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...

The backstory: The Vermont Square Branch was built in 1913 on what had been park land that was donated by the City of Los ...

SpaceX is asking the Federal Communications Commission to approve a plan to put up to a million satellites in orbit to process AI data.

In the middle of the day two young girls left the relative safety of their school. One has fair skin and the other brown. They searched the dumpsters behind their ...

The horrendous power outages caused by the recent storm have put many thousands of people in serious difficulties. The outages are mostly due to power lines being strung on poles ...

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster ...