NASA has been quietly nurturing a battery chemistry that looks nothing like the lithium-ion packs in phones, cars, or grid…

I have always been drawn to the strange edge cases where our best theories simply do not fit the facts.…

For decades, black holes have been the ultimate cosmic cliffhanger: regions of space where gravity wins so completely that even…

When most people picture a rocket launch, they imagine a vehicle blasting straight up through the sky until it “falls”…

I see the Nesher Ramla Homo fossils as a rare chance to watch human evolution get rewritten in real time.…

Across North America, archaeologists are pulling remarkable stories out of the ground, from Ice Age footprints to buried cities that…

When archaeologists lifted a set of fragile bones from a Colombian rock shelter, they expected to add a few more…

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside…

I’ve grown up with rockets that burn chemical fuel, but NASA’s next big leap in propulsion could make those engines…