History of Science

In a new book author John C. Mutter combines natural science and physical science to explore how disasters deepen social inequalities

Campaigns to name exoplanets seem like Shakespearean farce

China, Russia and the U.S. are developing and testing controversial new capabilities to wage war in space despite their denial of such work

After 16 years, Jon Stewart signed off from The Daily Show on August 6, but not before leaving the world a trove of humorous and pointed clips about science

Has burning natural gas instead of coal helped the U.S. economy decarbonize? It's complicated

Private funding for the Arecibo Observatory—the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world—may be a poison pill

With a $100-million donation, billionaire Yuri Milner plans to revolutionize the astronomical quest to find alien life

China’s current rank of eighth in the space race is misleading. The nation’s engineers are drawing up plans for a moon-capable rocket more powerful than the U.S.’s Saturn 5

Iran’s attempt to develop nuclear weapons will not be the last challenge faced in a journey that began with the world’s first fission bomb test during World War II

High-resolution images of the icy worlds reveal towering mountains, yawning canyons and perhaps hints of a subsurface ocean

At 8:52 P.M. Eastern time, July 14, 2015, an all's-well signal from the New Horizons spacecraft finished its 4.5-hour, three-billion-mile trip from near Pluto through the solar system to alert mission control on Earth that it was in working order and had succeeded in gathering data