For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...

Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” Co-investigator John Noonan, a research professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University in Alabama, said in a statement.

A fiery streak across the sky and a loud boom greeted many residents of northeast Ohio on the morning of March 17. The rare celestial spectacle, which took place a little before 9 A.M. Eastern ...

From romantic gestures involving pebbles to elaborate underwater "crops," the animal kingdom is packed with bizarre rituals.

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

A meteor exploded Tuesday morning north of Cleveland over Lake Erie. The American Meteor Society received hundreds reports of ...

It’s wet, you drop it, but think “eh, it’s fine.” You pop the can open and SPLASH—there’s soda all over white shirt. Could you have prevented this beverage tragedy? Yes, with a little help from ...

America sits on billions of barrels of clean, cheap oil, yet imports foreign crude at massive cost — and the SRT explains exactly why. In the 1970s, Henry Kissinger created the petro-dollar system, ...

The exploding ant, known scientifically as Colobopsis explodens, has one of the most extreme defense mechanisms in the animal kingdom. When threatened, certain worker ants rupture their own bodies, ...

Ants are among the most dynamic of the “little things that run the world,” as the late biologist E. O. Wilson described insects. They build complex communities, travel widely and are ubiquitous. There ...

Every now and then, unwanted pests — big and small — make their way into our homes, becoming a frustrating nuisance. From flies to cockroaches, these intruders can be hard to ignore. Winter weather ...