Astrology is bunk, but a new book exploring its ancient history argues that it has crucial lessons for today's data science with its seemingly opaque algorithms

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, set to launch on 7 February, will give us our first clear views of the sun’s poles and help unravel the mystery of the solar wind

The best picture of the sun is more than five times more detailed than the previous highest-resolution images, revealing weird structures on our star’s surface

In our atmosphere, strange dense patches of charged air sometimes bounce radio waves around and disrupt radar – and now they have been spotted on Mars

A spacecraft designed to study re-entry into Earth's atmosphere has a nose coated in cork, a cheap and lightweight alternative to other materials

We’ve spotted strange blasts of radio waves from space in a pattern that may be produced by a magnetised neutron star wobbling as it spins

When the Soviet Union lands on the moon first people in the US are shocked. But For All Mankind provides an even bigger surprise when one cosmonaut's identity is revealed, says Emily Wilson

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid that has been captured by Earth's gravity, making it a temporary mini-moon. It will probably fly away again in April

Earth’s atmosphere thankfully provides air for us to breathe, but when trying to study interesting objects in space it causes all sorts of problems, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

White dwarf stars are common in the galaxy, but astronomers have found one that doesn't seem to obey the rules. They think it was born when two smaller white dwarfs merged together

Our images of deep space are spectacular, but don’t reflect what our eyes would see. Here's what their stunning true colours reveal about the cosmos

Venus’s surface is covered in strange wiggling lines that may form when colossal stacks of lava are carved by gentle winds over hundreds of millions of years

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves in a rich biography, What Stars Are Made Of

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

An enormous rocky planet orbiting a distant star may be a gas giant that has had its atmosphere ripped off, which could help us understand how huge worlds like Jupiter form

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

A star that swoops close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a strange, looping orbit that proves Einstein was right about the gravity of black holes

Mars could have had an ancient ocean in its northern hemisphere, and a large raft of volcanic rock may have floated across it to settle into mounds we can see today

We know that there is at least one planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, and now astronomers may have taken the first picture of a second world

Mercury is much denser than the other rocky planets in the solar system, and that may be because a collision vaporised its surface and the debris was blown away by the sun

About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters with another star, which can fling off any planets orbiting them

Will Flynn be the right wing's Nelson Mandela? Of course that's insulting - but so is this entire presidency

Earlier this week, a depressing economic prognosis linked on the Drudge Report concluded: "A whole lot more pain is on the way, and it is going to shake our nation to the core."

You may have noticed, as a mere citizen of this country, there are many things you are not supposed to know. You are not mature enough or intelligent enough to handle certain information. You are in, in effect, a child in a supposedly democratic republic.

The Trump-Russia collusion investigation was an elaborate and intentional hoax, staged by the most unscrupulous and power-mad political operatives this country has ever seen.

New labor economy data paints a fuller - and bleaker - picture of the economy.

The overlooked epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic is our nation's nursing homes, veterans' homes, and other long-term care facilities.

This clay robot can squeeze and squish itself into different shapes

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

It's about more than just first place as teams look toward more competitions in 2020

Lab demoes of an all-optical neural network could lead to more powerful and less power-hungry AI

It'll take more than having its fingers chopped off to stop this robot hand

To take off from the water, this drone uses an explosion-powered water jet

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Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone

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Blue Frog Robotics CEO Rodolphe Hasselvander on the future of Buddy

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

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin

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

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

Experts discuss technological inequality and the “reskilling” problem at an MIT conference

The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values

OpenAI’s GPT-2 program churns out natural language that’s remarkably coherent—and that’s a problem

MIT conference considers companies that have implemented job-friendly AI