Explore a fascinating experiment with a device that appears to shrink objects, revealing the science behind the effect.

We’ve long known that dogs are pretty smart. They may “picture” objects in their heads just like us, communicate with button ...

In this video, we explore the creation of a cryogenic fluid using acetone and dry ice to freeze various objects and test their durability by attempting to shatter them. The experiment includes a ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...

Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the University of Tokyo have successfully demonstrated ...

The asteroid is believed to be now 11 meters (36 feet) across, spinning on its axis every five minutes, and has a peculiar composition. The discovery has massive implications for the mission. One of ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

Matthew King loves it when the wheels start turning for a kid – both the metaphoric mental wheels and the very literal one ...

Watch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...