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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...

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

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 --

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...