There's never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting interstellar spacecraft.

An ancient squid-like animal with a shell like a 1.5-metre-long paperclip may have lived to be 200 years old

Quantum physics promises huge advances not just in quantum computing but also in a quantum internet – a next-generation framework for transferring data from one place to another. Scientists have now invented technology suitable for a quantum mode

There are over 50 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

A vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 infections in ongoing Phase 3 trials, the companies announced Monday.

A year in space is no walk in the park. Just ask Scott Kelly, the American astronaut who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.

This robot called BladeBUG can inspect wind turbines and drastically reduce the need to deploy workers to offshore platforms. Learn more inside.

For the second time in only a matter of months, a cable accident has occurred at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, causing yet more damage to one of the world's largest and most powerful radio telescopes.

Europa beckons. This distant, icy orb may be only one of Jupiter's almost 80 known moons, but it's what's inside that counts – and what's inside Europa is predicted to be very special indeed.

The made its first journey carrying passengers Sunday, in a test the company claimed represented a major step forward for the "groundbreaking" technology capable of transporting people at 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) an hour. The Hyperloop is intended to…

It may sound like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but real-life scientists have been busy working on a super-precise laser tractor beam system to change the path and direction of lightning.

In 1934, theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed a new type of crystal.

In its 4.6 billion-year-long history, Mars has taken its fair share of punches from hurtling asteroids and careening comets. 

Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring.

It's comforting to imagine that with both space- and Earth-based telescopes trained on the cosmos, we'd be able to spot any hazardously sized asteroids heading our way a mile off, with plenty of time to paint them white or explode them away.

Update: A SpaceX Crew Dragon has successfully performed an autonomous rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station (ISS) for the third time in a row and the first time with four astronauts aboard. Near-flawless space station arrival now behind…

It is very exciting to hear another positive story about vaccine trial results – a good vaccine is the most likely way of ending the pandemic.

The first object within the Milky Way galaxy caught emitting fast radio bursts is now officially a repeater.