NASA is sending a small robot designed to perform surgery remotely or even autonomously to the International Space Station for trials.

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The atoms of gold in this mine in Uzbekistan may have originated in colliding neutron stars and supernovas.

The extreme electrical discharges can tower 50 miles above a thunderstorm.

We've still got to wait three years before the first asteroid flyby.

The most distant measure of dark matter suggests the universe might have behaved differently in the past.

Discovery.com shares news of KARI's historic mission to the moon.

'It's a giant leap for lambkind.'

As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to Earth, especially during the first few hours after sunset and the first few hours before sunrise. As more companies launch networks of satellites into low-Earth orbit, a clear vi…

Students have completed a comprehensive brightness study to characterize mega-constellation satellites cluttering the skies.

Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of UNLV physicists has upped the ante once again by reproducing the feat at the lowest pressure ever recorded.

And scientists have the receipts.

Warmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research which reveals a potential new driver of global sea-level rise.

The day was 1.59 milliseconds shorter than usual.

The outer layer of skin, the epidermis, is constantly turning over to replace dead or damaged cells throughout our lifetime. Skin stem cells need to continuously make decisions: either make more copies of themselves (self-renewal) or switch their fate towards…

After months of troubleshooting, NASA and its partners have succeeded in sufficiently unfolding a circular solar array that failed to fully deploy following the Oct. 16, 2021, launch of the Lucy asteroid probe.

Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems.

NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission. The miss…

Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of UNLV physicists h

Could analog AI hardware – rather than digital – solve machine learning’s rising costs and carbon footprint with fast, low-energy processing?

The bones of a mammoth and calf recently uncovered in New Mexico show signs of butchering, an exciting find that...

A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.

Liftoff is scheduled for 6:29 a.m. ET on Thursday (Aug. 4).

Venus has been called “Earth’s evil twin,” and that's not—sadly—because it looks just like Earth but has a mustache.