Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.

CHIEF1900 will help to recreate catastrophic events such as dam failures and earthquakes inside a lab, university says.

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

When a star gets too close to a black hole, the gravity of the black hole changes what happens next in really big ways. They ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

An artist's rendering of the Axiom station in orbit Editor at Large America’s most expensive government housing project cost north of $100 billion, took 13 years to build, and has been continuously ...

This year's sum of 109 launches shattered the short-lived annual record of 93 liftoffs set last year. That number was ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission is being held up as a test case for a new era of cheaper planetary science, one where small ...