A Soviet-era spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus in 1972 is plunging back to Earth. Marlon Sorge, an executive ...

In 1969, Penrose suggested that energy could be extracted from black holes by lowering an object into the ergosphere (the region ... this gained energy can be later expended to reach a terminal ...

is a good way to uncover novel things because different objects emit light in different ways. Objects in newly discovered classes also tend to be faint because, again, bright objects will have ...

The US Federal Reserve launched a potential overhaul of stress tests for big banks that would average the results over two years and give extra time to adjust to new capital requirements.

For the first time in the 20 years of cruising from Mobile, there will be two cruise lines from different companies docked at the Alabama Cruise Terminal at the same time. The occasion will take ...

Upon being irradiated, the target generates an x-ray flash, similar to the one produced during a nuclear explosion in space, which can then be used to bombard various objects—in this case ...