A tiny meteorite found in Antarctica doesn’t match any asteroid or comet we know of. Instead, it must have come from a mystery parent body that’s full of water

Our measurements of the Hubble constant can't seem to come up with a consistent answer. What we learn next may alter our view of the cosmos, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Some black holes are way bigger than we can explain, and they may have come from supermassive stars that formed by devouring the other stars around them

An unusually round and symmetrical deposit on Mars may be the result of an impact that popped the surface of the planet, causing a volcanic eruption less than 200,000 years ago

Brown dwarfs, which are halfway between huge planets and small stars, have extremely powerful winds whipping around them at speeds of about 650 metres per second

An explosion 4.6 billion light years away has released 10 times more energy than the sun will put out in its lifetime, making it the most extreme supernova ever found

Spending at least six months in microgravity can cause astronauts’ brain volumes to increase, causing pressure to build up in their heads and creating vision problems

Arrokoth, a strange two-lobed space rock, was hit by another rock at some point – the collision may have snapped Arrokoth’s narrow neck before it reformed again

Faraway galaxies have been spotted unexpectedly flashing up to 100 times their usual brightness, and it seems to be caused by eddies in Earth’s atmosphere

The coronavirus pandemic is making life feel slower than ever, but observing timescales across the universe can bring us some comfort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system

NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024

The leading hypothesis for how the moon formed involves a collision between a Mars-sized object and Earth that would have boiled away elements like carbon, making its discovery on the moon a mystery

Michigan can and will recover from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic - but not if Joe Biden wins the presidential election this November. The former vice president's radical policy platform is destined to sabotage America's second economic comeback, dooming the Great Lakes State to a bleak future of perpetual economic stagnation.

If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.

The country faces the same problem today it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.

There is something deeply unsettling about the lionization of Andrew Cuomo and his handling of the epidemic, especially in the light of the raw statistics

The Justice Department's move was the latest example of the attorney general's effort to chisel away at the special counsel investigation and emphasize an alternate narrative.

A lightweight, flexible exosuit pulls on your muscles as you move to make you more efficient

Ready-to-connect readycables® save you time on cable assembly and are guaranteed to last 36 months

Interrogate the data, consider possible incentives, and look for the dreaded “hype salad”

With mapping and semi-autonomous navigation, even you can drive a Double 3

Robots that can control puppets could one day learn to manipulate complex physical objects like clothing and flexible sheets

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion

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Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development

Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses

For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space

A startup led by robotics veterans is announcing a pre-seed funding round with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund and iRobot Ventures

The topography and bathymetry payload for UAV

Experts representing a diversity of views on autonomous weapons systems collaborate on a realistic policy roadmap

Pepe helps keep Indian children healthy by reminding them to wash up

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed

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New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

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Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head

Argonne will use the CS-1 to help discover cancer therapies and understand colliding blackholes

More than 3.9 million people have been sickened and more than 270,000 killed by the coronavirus around the world. This map is updated daily.

A YouTube search unearths deleted scenes shot with a different cast.

Temuera Morrison is appearing on the next season of the show.

We can’t stop him because we must know what happens next; our curiosity is his source of power.

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

What feels like a victory to Jen doesn’t carry the same sense of relief for Judy.