Colonising the solar system is not being stopped by technology alone. Radiation isolation distance gravity and long term human survival pose challenges far greater than rockets or funding. Even ...

Pour one out for the ancient MetroCard and its equally old cousin, the PATH SmartLink card. The beginning of the end for these longtime ways to pay fares on the bi-state PATH system came Thursday when ...

The Defense Department is notoriously picky about films that depict military and national-security issues, and understandably so. Many movies that feature the military get a lot of things wrong, ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Join CAP for a timely conversation with Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) and CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden on solutions to actually fix our ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that swells generated by the hurricane are expected to reach the Big Island and Maui by Sunday. "These swells will gradually build and are forecast to peak ...

For the latest on Tropical Storm Fernand, visit the National Hurricane Center's website. Tropical Storm Fernand formed in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Bermuda, forecasters said Saturday, becoming ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

Attached to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) allows researchers to probe the most distant galaxies. It’s a popular instrument: for its next observing ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.