A radio telescope project known as the Deep Synoptic Array is moving forward. It aims to detect radio waves emitted by stars, planets, galaxies and other celestial objects.

The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has described Mechanical Turk as “artificial artificial intelligence.” Since its launch, however, ...

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates the 4th of July with a dazzling array of red, white and blue space phenomena.

A Chinese research team has for the first time detected radio pulses from a long-term "radio-quiet" young neutron star - ...

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The Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, ...

In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones ...

SETI researchers found no alien signals on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, but the study refines future searches and expands ...

The “We the Youth” artwork revives a long-running debate among preservationists over whether murals should be protected as ...

When a bright fireball streaked across the Alaska sky last spring, the usual tools scientists rely on to track such ...