Army is preparing to incinerate enemy weapons “targets” in an upcoming in a “lase-off” firing of its emerging Stryker-armed 50-kilowatt laser weapon designed to destroy drones, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and incoming enemy missiles.
A silver cigarette case that stopped a bullet from injuring a soldier during World War I could be worth thousands of dollars when it goes up for auction later this month.
Back in 2003, the skeletal fragments of nine small hominids were found in the Liang Bua Cave on Flores, an Indonesian Island. The find included an almost complete skull and partial skeleton of a probable female around 30 years of age, which was named LB1. Once reconstructed, researchers were shocked to find that LB1 was only three and a half feet tall.
A rare baseball from the 1915 World Series champions Boston Red Sox signed by baseball legend and Hall of Famer Babe Ruth could be worth as much as $XXX when it goes up for auction next month.
Boeing’s Starliner capsule that will eventually take astronauts into space completed a key abort test Monday when it soared for almost a mile before parachuting back into the New Mexico desert.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than two years President Donald Trump has talked about pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement . Starting Monday he finally can do something about it.
NASA is sending a zero-G oven to the International Space Station (ISS) to help astronauts make "common and widely consumed foods in space," including chocolate chip cookies.
The grisly discovery of human bones behind a house in the Scottish city of Aberdeen is now thought to point to a dark chapter in history — the illicit use of dead bodies for anatomical practice in the 19th century.
Forest officials in Arizona were mystified in October when local landmark Wizard Rock, a 1-ton boulder, suddenly vanished from its position along Highway 89 in Prescott.
California's raging wildfires have consumed tens of thousands of acres, displaced thousands and knocked out power -- but could the planet be entering a new age of fire?
Inspired by the sticky substance spiders shoot to catch their prey, MIT engineers have designed a special double-sided tape that can rapidly seal tissues together.
Just days after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that Pluto should be given back its planet status, the U.S. space agency announced that it has funded a study to see if another orbiter mission is feasible.
Past asteroid impacts may have done significant damage to life on Earth, but a new study suggests that a Goldilocks impact from a space rock might be an important ingredient in supporting life on other planets.
Where did the spiritual concept of evil originate? One possible explanation might be people's attempts to understand and cope with infectious diseases.