From basic research to superweapons, pushing science to its limits is costly. You won't believe how much went into these ...

NASA has chosen four teams to develop a suite of advanced technologies slated for space flight validation on the New Millennium Programs Space Technology 8 (ST8) Mission.

Physics is supposed to be predictable. Drop a ball, and gravity pulls it down. Heat water, and it boils. Light travels in straight lines. Yet throughout history, scientists have encountered ...

The Royal New Zealand Navy, Defence Science and Technology (DST), and Dawn Aerospace, have completed a live radar tracking experiment using a reusable rocket-powered aircraft off the Canterbury coast.

Some observers argue the end of SCoPEx should mark the end of such proposals. Others say any future experiments should proceed in markedly different ways. In late March of 2017, at a small summit in ...

The decision follows years of controversy and the departure of one of the program’s key researchers. Harvard researchers have ceased a long-running effort to conduct a small geoengineering experiment ...