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Lightsabers are the most iconic Star Wars weapons, but their mechanics and complete history aren't crystal clear. Here's everything you need to know about them.

A scientist reconstructed the muscles of an early human to determine if she walked upright. Turns out, Lucy did walk upright - and she was ripped.

Kuva Space plans to launch four microsatellites in 2024 and to deploy as many as 100 satellites by 2030. The post Kuva Space wins 5 million euro award for hyperspectral data appeared first on SpaceNews.

Theropods were a group of meat-eating dinosaurs that lived during the Mesozoic Era. Learn more about these fascinating creatures and their unique adaptations for hunting and surviving in their environment.

Europe's Mercury probe BepiColombo will take a close look at its target planet on Monday(June 19), and we can expect some exciting new images soon after that.

Thanks to a well-placed gravitational lens, a team of astronomers was able to observe a supernova four times! The post Astronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lens appeared first on Univer...

We may have already found evidence of an evolving, dynamic kind of dark energy, in the form of the radiation emitted when the first stars appeared in the universe.

NASA held a flag-raising ceremony on Thursday (June 15) to recognize the Juneteenth holiday.

Indonesia's Satria-1 broadband satellite deployed its solar panels after launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 to geosynchronous transfer orbit over the weekend, manufacturer Thales Alenia Space said June 19. The post Indonesia...

Prediction is one of the hallmarks of scientific endeavors. Scientists pride themselves on being able to predict physical realities based on inputs. So it should come as no surprise that a team of scientists at Notre Dam...

The giant reptile was named after London's Natural History Museum's Professor Paul Barrett.

There’s some potentially big news on the hunt for dark matter. Astronomers may have a handle on what makes this mysterious cosmic stuff: strange particles called “axions.” Rather than search directly for axions, ho...

Italy's Campi Flegrei is showing some troubling early warning signs, but scientists caution that its eruption is far from certain.

A new experiment by IBM computers shows that quantum computers could soon outperform classical digital computers at practical tasks in the next two years.

The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency said it received initial images from its first missile-warning satellites launched April 2 to low Earth orbit. The post Space Development Agency's missile warning satellite...

How large would an extraterrestrial city have to be for current telescopes to see it? Would it need to be a planet-sized metropolis like Star Wars' Coruscant? Or could we see an alien equivalent of Earth's own largest ur...

Infrared measurements of TRAPPIST-1 c indicate that it is probably not as Venus-like as once imagined.

The best hope for finding life on another world isn't listening for coded messages or traveling to distant stars, it's detecting the chemical signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres. This long hoped-for achievement is oft...

When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible.

As dawn rose over the German city of Bremen on May 7, 1823, Heinrich Olbers put the finishing touches to an article that left his name in history. After the deaths of his wife and daughter, Dr. Olbers had recently given ...

Over the past eight years, I have been asked to submit astronomical evidence for court cases all over Australia.

A new study suggests that pulsars could act as natural gravitational wave sensors, setting limits on supermassive black hole mergers or even detecting them. The post Astronomers Have Never Detected Merging Supermassive B...