One of the last major steps before SpaceX flies its Crew Dragon craft with real NASA astronauts onboard is an “in-flight abort test.” Scheduled to take...
SpaceX will launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a critical abort test Saturday morning (Jan. 18), and you can watch it live online. The private spaceflight...
An international team of researchers has created what’s called a “strange metal” — and they say it could help harness the potential of the quantum world...
A team of physicists from Rice University in the U.S. and the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria has put their heads together for...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led...
Thirty years ago, no one knew if there were planets outside of our solar system. As astronomers figure out increasingly clever ways to observe even the...
Everything about the mysterious giant squid Architeuthis dux is massive. It grows as big as a school bus, has eyes the size of dinner plates, and tentacles...
Scientists have reported on another devastating biological disaster, caused by a patch of abnormally warm water in the Pacific Ocean known as ‘the Blob’. This concentrated...
But the cause has never been definitively settled, and some scientists have questioned the widely held “sudden-death by asteroid” theory. That camp believes that massive volcanic...
Tens of thousands of seabirds found dead on the west coast of the US in 2015-16 were probably killed by an unprecedented heatwave, scientists say. Around...
