Kids and aliens alike love the sugar-coated peanut butter bites called Reese's Pieces, but another candy was supposed to star ...

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of sky-high thinking entrepreneurs and designers have their way, we will soon ...

Rio Tinto is leading the integration of an exciting new technology that utilizes cosmic rays. Miners are using the technology to identify deposits, improve leaching, and make mines safer. Cosmic rays ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – Young space enthusiasts took their imaginations to new heights Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex during Legoland Florida Resort’s Junior Galaxy Explorers ...

There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes up the emptiness of outer space, though many believe that mysterious stuff that we now call dark matter and dark energy represent a ...

Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reaching new heights as companies are pursuing plans to station data centers in space. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon ...

If you harbor any doubts that Jim Henson’s creations remain relevant more than a quarter-century after the celebrated puppeteer’s passing, look no further than the strident social media reactions to ...

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — a common ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...

The original Seiko Astron was one of the most impactful watches ever made, as its release on Christmas Day in 1969 marked the beginning of the quartz era and forever changed watchmaking. Today, the ...