A satellite carrying a nuclear weapon would not just menace rival spacecraft. It could scramble parts of modern life on Earth ...

Rare earth elements are crucial for our modern age. Crucial, too, is solving the environmental challenges surrounding them.

About 60 USC engineering students and faculty members just became space pioneers after their creation just hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket. MAVERIC, a satellite about the size of a shoebox, is one ...

At the appointed hour, the door to the Uri Geller Museum creaks open just as I reach to knock it. And there, emerging into ...

The Frenchman is a footballer, flautist and a thespian. There’s no question he is the most thrilling and compelling figure at this year’s tournament ...

Visitors to 'gravity hills' worldwide witness cars seemingly rolling uphill, sparking myths of supernatural forces. However, these locations are masterful optical illusions. The surrounding landscape ...

What looked like an old Rhine bend was a Roman canal that stayed in use for centuries after the empire fell, researchers ...

A small, rocky world orbiting a red dwarf star just 25 light-years from Earth now looks more like a plausible candidate for ...

Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after observing extreme winds on scorching worlds known as "hot Jupiters." ...

A surprising reversal in molten iron flow beneath the Pacific is giving scientists a sharper view of how Earth’s magnetic ...