Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) have been combined with infrared data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light blue, teal and orange) and radio from ...

The mysterious interstellar object hurtling through our solar system has just given scientists more evidence that it may be a craft from another part of the galaxy. According to Harvard astrophysicist ...

The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off an object.

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Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you’d have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the ...

Vibrating pads placed on people’s arms can make the illusion of holding light or heavy objects in virtual reality more convincing by making us disregard some inputs from our senses. Some virtual ...

A research team from Tsinghua University says it has developed a 3D printing method capable of fabricating millimeter-scale objects in under a second, which is a dramatic improvement over most current ...