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Pulses of light from infrared lasers can speed up computer operations by a factor of 1 million, and may have opened the door to room-temperature quantum computing.

Weird, slow-moving waves in the planet's core could explain the mysterious drifting.

An Orbital ATK Antares rocket will launch a Cygnus supply ship Monday morning (May 21) to deliver more than 3 tons NASA cargo to the International Space Station, and you can watch it live online.

The utility of space sensors has been studied for decades so the Pentagon has plenty of data to draw from. SpaceNews.com

Some of the earliest human explorers used mechanical tools called sextants to navigate vast oceans and discover new lands....

According to a new study from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the pressure at the center of a proton is one-hundred times greater than at the core of a neutron star! The post The Pressure Inside Every...

Striking United Launch Alliance employees will return to work after voting May 19 to accept a revised contract, ending a two-week strike. SpaceNews.com

Scientists are creating a temperature 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space aboard the International Space Station. Here's why.

"The signals will be from the civilization as it was," said Frank Drake, creator of the famous Drake Equation. "It is not a remote possibility -- it is a high probability -- that signals we receive will be from a...   ...