Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November

Benin's presumed-dead coral reef rediscovered teeming with life

A coral reef off the coast of Benin, presumed dead for over 60 years, has been rediscovered teeming with life via deep-sea rovers.

China plans bold asteroid collision test to outpace NASA's DART mission

China is developing a high-speed asteroid collision test designed to surpass the capabilities of NASA's DART mission.

Life Has Life Been Found on Mars?

New research and sample-return ambitions are renewing global discussions regarding the possibility of life on Mars.

Scientists have found an ancient sea worm with jaws made from a mysterious 'bio-metal' never encountered

Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the r

Researchers have used 'silly sprinklers' to solve a decades-old physics puzzle that previously stumped Richard Feynman.

Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight

A new astronomical model reveals that the Sun contains significantly more silver than previous scientific estimates suggested.