A biochemist breaks down challenges that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will face after their long duration in ...

Evangelista Torricelli, one of the first to discover atmospheric pressure, once said, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air." The Earth's gravitational field is pulling ...

Water towers are everywhere, and while they might not seem to be doing much, when was the last time you turned on a faucet in ...

With no outward pressure from fusion to counterbalance gravity's inward pull, the star condenses and collapses in upon itself. Despite their small diameters—about 12.5 miles (20 kilometers ...

Plans for future upgrades to the 4-kilometer LIGO detectors and the construction of a next-generation 40-kilometer observatory, Cosmic Explorer, aim to push the gravitational-wave detection ...