Science

NASA shared a stunning photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a distant edge-on galaxy. Through previous observations, this galaxy helped prove the galaxy’s expansion. The galaxy photographed by...

Humans have no trouble recognizing objects and reasoning about their behaviors — it’s at the core of their cognitive development. Even as children, they group segments into objects based on...

China’s robotic Chang’e-4 spacecraft did something last year that had never been done before: It landed on the moon’s far side, and Yutu-2, a small rover it was carrying, began...

A visiting mini-moon is circling Earth, according to astronomers who discovered the cosmic squatter in our planet’s orbit. The tiny asteroid, dubbed 2020 CD3, was spotted by astronomers in Tucson,...

For the first time, one commercial satellite has grabbed hold of another one in orbit around Earth, demonstrating a technology that could help reduce the proliferation of space debris around...

In self-supervised learning, an AI technique where the training data is automatically labeled by a feature extractor, the said extractor not uncommonly exploits low-level features (known as “shortcuts”) that cause...

Some of Earth’s plants have fallen in love with metal. With roots that act practically like magnets, these organisms — about 700 are known — flourish in metal-rich soils that...