Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

We don't have to worry about the death of the sun any time soon, but when it does happen, will the Earth be able to survive?

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

From riot grrrl to hip-hop to Arkestra, the city’s smallest venues and largest stages won’t leave you wanting for live music ...

Astronomers have figured out where a stream of long radio bursts is coming from, and its origin is unprecedented. Rather than ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Tragically, DC Comics has found a way to make the destruction of Krypton even worse in the new Absolute Universe compared to ...

The latest mishap, which marks the eighth test flight of Starship, comes just over a month after the seventh test suffered a ...