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Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to traveling ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

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We tested four super bright flashlights that range from a laser-powered flashlight that shoots a beam over a .5 mile to a ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Otago, has introduced a groundbreaking method to improve the accuracy of prey size estimation using footage captured by ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

Scientists have confirmed the space around us appears to be growing faster than physics can explain, based off precise measurements of a galaxy cluster over 300 million light-years away.