Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Lu Lu looks forward to the next two decades of neutrino astrophysics, exploring the remarkable detector concepts needed to ...

Sunshine may hold healing rays for a variety of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Scientists are turning this ...

Kathy Reagan Young steps out of the shower in her Virginia Beach home, towels off, dons a pair of protective goggles and stands nine inches from a light box the size of a small space heater. Young ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations ...

The projected landing zone covers an enormous area on both sides of the equator. The craft successfully made it into an Earth parking orbit, but Soviet scientists failed to launch the probe into ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

Elon Musk is not new to the world of innovation, and he wants to break the barriers again. Perhaps $20 trillion could change the Earth’s map. If implemented, this transatlantic tunnel will be the most ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

A SOVIET spacecraft once destined for Venus is expected to crash back to Earth on Saturday after more ... an enormous area on both sides of the equator. Kosmos 482 is expected to fall anywhere ...