(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Scientific magazines and websites have been raising quite the hubbub about the Amplituhedron, a geometric structure that can be used to simplify calculations in particle ...

Watch as the International Space Station takes shape in this time-lapsed NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which ...

Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions. All the planets of our solar system are encased ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

We can never 100% prove that the constants really are constant. There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?

Scientists on the ISS are studying how condensation works in space to improve cooling systems for electronics on Earth and in ...

Many kids dream of becoming an astronaut. San Jose’s Steve Smith remembers scrawling his space exploration fantasies in crayon, too — but his dreams came true. Smith flew four space missions, traveled ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

Imagine you’re on the moon, digging up lunar regolith. You’re focused on the task at hand when you suddenly slip and fall, right into your pickaxe. Even in the moon’s weaker gravitational field, ...

SpaceX’s gargantuan Starship rocket aced its 11th flight test earlier this month in what was the final launch for the second version of the mighty vehicle. The team is now prepping the launch of the ...