Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Back in 1832, the celebrated British physicist, Michael Faraday, carried out a set of experiments designed to answer a tantalizing question: could electricity be generated by Earth's rotation through ...

S cientists have found that it’s possible to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

TBD: ULA’s Vulcan launches U.S. space force missions. April could also see United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

Scientists at Northumbria University have successfully captured images of auroras on Neptune using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's Perseverance rover isn't just hunting for signs of ancient life on Mars, it's also testing spacesuit materials right ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

At left is NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating the location of the calibration target for the rover's ...