An instinctive reaction to creepy-crawlies doesn't go away when you're in space....

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or “entangled,” the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity…...

Research shows that snapping too many pictures may harm your ability to retain memories. But selfie addicts, don't despair! There are techniques to make photography enhance memory not undermine it....

The moon's complex geologic history could act as a pointer to understand other rocky worlds in the universe, including those that are potentially habitable, according to a new pair of research papers....

A key challenge for scientists striving to produce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is preventing what are called runaway electrons, particles unleashed in disrupted fusion experiments that can bore holes in tokamaks, the doughnut-shap…...

An ancient explosion sent a white dwarf star speeding through the galaxy....

Take a closer look at the complex choreography involved in building NASA’s Europa Clipper as the mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa approaches its 2024 launch date....

Starliner has visited its launch pad twice now without being able to launch....

A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say...

A look at the Antikythera Mechanism....

A star just 35 light-years away has been found to host a number of rocky exoplanets, and one that has a good chance of habitability....

But a study of the publications of millions of researchers also suggests that women are less likely to continue their academic careers than their male counterparts....

In the small, pre-dawn hours of July 14, dozens of meteors blazed across the brilliantly clear starry skies above Maunakea, Hawai'i. The event was livestreamed to hundreds of people worldwide from the Subaru-Asahi's Sky Camera....

The imagery of the supernova shows a powerful burst of light as a shockwave travels through the dying star moments before it detonates...

Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through the haze and to give a better idea of how often these explosions occur. You’d think that supernovae – the death throes of massive stars and among the brightest, mo…...

Remastered photos obtained by USA TODAY show new images of the Apollo 15 moon landing ahead of the missions' 50th anniversary....

The science and philosophy channel Kurzgesagt has come out with a mind-blowing size comparison of the universe's black holes....

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers have identified a vast collection of pulsating red giant stars that will help us explore our galactic neighborhood....

In the late 1970s, M. Stanley Whittingham was the first to describe the concept of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, an achievement for which he would share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yet even he couldn’t have anticipated the complex materials scien…...