Sue Nelson explores how asteroids can inform our understanding of the Earth's past – or threaten our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space ...

Even if at some level they are pretty scary, it's always nice to see robots getting enhanced capabilities. After all, we've made them to help us, so that's what they should do, evolve to be able ...

He suggests this anomaly could mean the universe was “born” spinning or that we might live inside a colossal black hole. Professor Shamir also noted that this rotational imbalance might be due to the ...

26 launch atop a SpaceX rocket, but things are looking more dire as the spacecraft runs low on power while spinning in space. Ground controllers for the NASA/Caltech-led mission, called Lunar ...

Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Credit: Gabriel Pérez (IAC) A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most ...