The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, communicate with Earth and maneuver to its final destination without relying ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." The ...

We can never 100% prove that the constants really are constant. There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?

If you were able to visualize the passage of time, it may appear as looping ribbons of color, these fragments ribboning and glinting whenever they refracted light. Researchers at the University of ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic ...

Nearly a billion light-years away, a massive spiral galaxy is screaming into the void. Though scientists don't yet know what fuels the radio jets, a new study, published March 20 in the Monthly ...

Students move pieces around the board during a wargame based on Pacific conflict while attending Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in 2023. (Billy Blankenship/U.S. Air Force) Lessons ...

A newly designed rank insignia in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 2020. Far out in geosynchronous orbit, a Russian satellite moves through deep space. Cosmos 2553, nicknamed “Sput-nuke,” is designed to ...

Two perspectives offer complementary insights into how the relationship between space, time, and subject can shape our perception of time, whether it feels diluted or extended. One comes from Georg ...