The Solomon Islands—a nation comprised of nearly one thousand islands located northeast of Australia, between Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea—is an impressive corner of the globe. Dense, lush rainforest blankets the majority of the islands, and the country’s…

The enormous break comes just 2 months after a piece of ice nearly the size of Delaware split from Antarctica.

The human brain is used as a comparison for how computer's function. But, honestly, computers are nothing like human brains. Not yet, at least. That could change as researchers have developed computing technology that uses light to mimic the functionality…

NASA reported that a strong solar blast hit Mars earlier this month, leading to a global aurora on Mars that was 25 brighter than any that had been previously recorded.

Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young were recognized for research into the cellular mechanisms controlling the body’s 24-hour cycle.

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for detection of black hole collisions that created gravitational waves. The LIGO and Virgo detectors in the U.S. and Italy were used to conduct the research.

The prizewinning work, in cryo-electron microscopy, revolutionized the way scientists can observe biological molecules.

It doesn't even break the laws of physics.

Seen and heard, the fireball is a stunning breakthrough into kilonovas, bursts of energy believed to produce metals like gold and uranium in the universe.

Pieces weighing up to 220 pounds could make it to the Earth's surface.