NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President Trump’s ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s ...

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Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

SpaceX is still looking into what happened on Flight 9, an investigation overseen by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ...

Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...

Thirty of the world’s most renowned mathematicians traveled to Berkeley, Calif., with some coming from as far away as the U.K ...

Hundreds of trans people, activists and supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C ...

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Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

When Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex in the nation, Iran could have been days away from ...