Last month, NASA briefly lost Voyager 1 in the expanse of interstellar space, and when the craft reappeared it was ...

There's value in hitting your deadlines, a new study shows: work submitted late is often thought to be of lower quality, even ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

For the first time, physicists have transformed a quantum processor into a state of matter that seems to defy physics, a ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure.

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While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically ...