This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...

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An international research team led by the University of Vienna has succeeded in developing a new method to directly measure partial charges in molecules. The results, now published in Nature, provide ...

Ask most robots to pick up an egg and you end up with… a broken egg. But this pair of automated fingers uses an incredibly delicate thin film and some simple physics to grasp fragile objects with ...

Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of ...