Science Stories

It's electrifying!

And nine of them might support life!

Physics professor Kunal K. Das explains how our everyday emotions directly relate to quantum states.

You may regret saving everything to the Cloud after reading these books…

Looking to the future at Silicon Valley Comic Con.

Unpacking the science behind the sci-fi at Silicon Valley Comic-Con.

Hey cutie pie, want to kill all humans?

This is the droid you're looking for.

After years of waiting, the agency has shared concrete details about how they plan to put humans on the red planet.

In the middle of tremulous times here on planet Earth, NASA has offered us a way out. Well, at least a look out.

"I think that if we capture the history of this and show what the force of these weapons are ... then maybe people will be reluctant to use them."

Learn the strange secrets of the ISS—a symbol of global unity and the power of science.

NASA is charting a course to uncover the secrets of Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, the mysterious Europa.

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will send two private citizens around the Moon. Here's what we know so far.

From digestion to the rate we age, life in space could have surprising side effects.

Some of these new-found worlds are so fantastic, it's hard to believe they actually exist.

A modern-day space race between private companies is heating up to send humans into deep space.

You know what we don’t talk about enough? Martians. I don’t mean little green men — I’m talking about real live organisms that we know currently exist on the red planet.

Here's a reminder of how wonderful, wacky, and sometimes gross the world can be.

Here's the good news: our honeybees aren't really in trouble. The bad news: we've got far bigger problems to worry about.