Science vessels were first responders to unknown dangers, making them far more expendable than larger cruisers.

A pair of silver tongs reaches for a turkey burger in a frying pan - bestbee/Shutterstock We may not be able to ascertain what went through Gloria Beesley's mind on that fateful day in July 2018 when ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

As SpaceX prepares to launch its Starship megarocket on a mission it calls "flight 13," here's a look back at the previous 12 tests from South Texas.

‘AI scientists’ are exploding across disciplines. Will they morph what gets researched? When Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis articulated his vision for “AI scientists” that could ...

Drawing from his own experience in experimental science, Professor G Ravindra Kumar explained how AI could help address problems that researchers have been trying to solve for decades.

Forests in Japan are now dealing with an unexpected environmental problem. More than a century after the extinction of its native wolves, large numbers of deer are eating saplings before they can ...

Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have located the first missing black hole in the ...

The project is expected to enable pioneering discoveries by scientists around the world, and ultimately deliver a time-lapse view of a massive swath of the known universe.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem ...