Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

A mysterious region known as the Great Attractor is pulling over 100,000 galaxies, including our own, at 600 km per second toward an unseen mass scientists still can’t identify.

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

"The area has actually become larger." Scientists issue warning as powerful force causes enormous land mass to change ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety is reviewing Moss Point Police Department operations after the resignation of Chief Brandon Ashley and most sworn officers, with recommendations expected ...

With the federal government teetering on the brink of a shutdown, U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark is calling for the chamber’s top Republican to work to avert it, and to swear in a newly elected Democratic ...

For over two months, astronomers have been closely following an interstellar object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — as it screams through the solar system at a breakneck speed. The unusual visitor was only the ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is directing federal agencies to prepare for permanent mass firings if the government enters a partial shutdown after 11:59 p.m. ET Sept. 30. The Office of ...

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