A Chinese artificial intelligence system has successfully solved a decade-old algebra conjecture, originally proposed by American mathematician Dan Anderson in 2014. Developed by a Peking University ...

During Apollo 13, a near-exact replica helped engineers solve a life-threatening issue. Today, NASA still uses spacecraft duplicates to troubleshoot problems. Iran responds to Trump's threat of ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

In the last episode of my column in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, we looked at a particle moving in an attractive central force whose strength is proportional to the inverse cube of ...

Michael Byers co-directs the Outer Space Institute. When Neil Armstrong descended from the Apollo 11 lunar lander in 1969, he could never have imagined that – more than a half-century later – we’d be ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We got to share in a rare moment of collective awe this week as four astronauts blasted off toward the moon, beginning a 10-day journey that ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But that’s not the only anomaly you’ll experience if you venture outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Since NASA’s Artemis II crew set off on their mission around the ...

We're wrapping up our live coverage of the Artemis II space mission for today. The crew spoke at their first news conference this evening since returning to Earth. They discussed some of the highs of ...