There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a ...

In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...

Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle ...

The cockpit of the Millennium Falcon looks like pure science fiction, but its layout and feel are rooted in a very specific ...

Humans are expected to go through a big shift in how they think and feel, blending science with spiritual ideas. The future ...

Tahlequah, Oklahoma, sitting pretty in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, offers exactly that kind of uncomplicated existence that feels increasingly mythical in our overscheduled world. This town ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

Approximately 400,000 years ago, some areas of Greenland that are now covered by a thick layer of ice were exposed to fresh ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a great job at explaining gravity but it is thought to be incomplete ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...