Sandia National Laboratories physicist Nathan Moore and nine co-authors ran computer simulations of an X-ray pulse striking lumpy, realistically shaped asteroids and found that the side taking the hit ...

A four-rotor drone named Alta-X carried NASA’s landing-guidance payload over the dry lakebed at Edwards, California, and flew ...

(matejmo/iStock/Getty Images) We're here. We're not entirely sure how we got here, but we're here. But… what if we weren't ...

Physicists on China's Tiangong station cooled 20,000 atoms to the coldest temperature in space: 9.7 trillionths of a degree ...

A computer model of a Bose-Einstein condensate, (NASA/NIST) Even the seemingly empty vacuum of space isn't completely cold.

By modeling how a planet without life develops its atmosphere, astronomers hope to be able to better distinguish rocky ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 robotic probe flew by Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s, it uncovered an anomaly: their magnetic fields ...

Researchers analyzed droppings from birds and bats in rice fields of Guinea-Bissau to identify pest consumption. The study ...

What was the original first‑person shooter? Two largely forgotten computer games from the 1970s ushered in the genre.

Imagine being able to test how a jet engine will perform under extreme temperatures, ...

A 5-billion-year computational simulation accurately models abiotic geochemical exchange across Earth’s core, mantle, crust, and atmosphere ...

The model combines Sandia’s ALEGRA and SPARTA codes to calculate different parts of the problem, according to The Register.