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Scientists behind a theory that the speed of light is variable - and not constant as Einstein suggested - have made a prediction that could be tested. Einstein observed that the speed of light remains the same in any sit...

Departments like the EPA and NASA could see a dramatic shift in their funding and priorities --

One of the biggest puzzles in physics is that eighty-five percent of the matter in our universe is "dark": it does not interact with the photons of the conventional electromagnetic force and is therefore invisible to our...

Efforts to explain a strange cold spot in the cosmos have led to the discovery of something even odder: a vast area with very little matter --

Astrophotographer Jeff Berkes took this image from Assateague Island National Seashore along the eastern shores of Maryland on Nov. 5, 2016.

On Sept. 24, 2016, seven explorers began an 80-day mission at the Mars Desert Research Station, a facility in the Utah desert operated by the nonprofit Mars Society. Learn all about the mission -- part of the larger Mars...