NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency ...

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on the issue of whether a couple, who had frozen embryos before the Surrogacy ...

The Space Force has an array of sensors scattered around the world to detect and track satellites and space debris. The 18th ...

She learned that you had to fight for a better life. Her father, Dominick, was one of the earliest organizers of the United ...

Splendid sculpture and painting from LACMA's permanent collection was packed up about eight years ago. Finally, it's back on view — but only for a while.

The space plane’s test flight will advance development of a new navigation technology based on electromagnetic wave ...

Gravity is a force we experience every day, yet it challenges our basic understanding of how the universe works. Why does ...

The breakthrough slip-prevention method allows robots to predict when an object might slip – and adapt their movements in ...

Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the ...

In biblical times and in the Nazi era, ordinary men and women performed awe-inspiring acts; they still do today.

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country's first homegrown launch ...