Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Aren't
The same lab that first reported the shocking results last year, which could have upended modern physics, now reports that neutrinos "respect the cosmic speed limit"
The same lab that first reported the shocking results last year, which could have upended modern physics, now reports that neutrinos "respect the cosmic speed limit"
The company's Falcon 9 liftoff this morning represents the potential of a new era in U.S. spaceflight, the White House science adviser says
Science fiction writers will always, by definition, be one step ahead of engineers, and interstellar travel and time travel still elude them
It's just the second new particle to be discovered at the atom smasher where physicists also seek the elusive Higgs boson particle
The "Star Trek" actor was on hand when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday and explained the show's influence on the shuttle's name
A match of silicon isotopes in terrestrial and lunar rock samples is revealing more about how both bodies really formed
Scientists hope that by plotting out the distribution of dark matter throughout space, they will come closer to understanding what it is
Phobos-Grunt appears to be stuck in Earth orbit. In two weeks, if its thrusters aren't restarted, the spacecraft will be lost completely
The defunct Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) reentered the atmosphere at 12:01 A.M. Eastern time (0401 GMT) on Saturday, falling into the Pacific at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 degrees east longitude...
Atlantis is on its way home for a final landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
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