To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio ...

Researchers are investigating hole mobility in compressively strained germanium on silicon to improve the performance of next ...

The most publicized church in the world in 1962 has been the Little Falls United Presbyterian Church of Arlington, Virginia. Its minister, the Rev. Frank A. Erwin, has played a key supporting role in ...

Astronaut and Air Force Group Captain Shubhashu Shukla, who went to space in June, recalled his travel outside the Earth as a ...

A Japanese travel agency said Tuesday it plans to launch a high-speed space transport service in the 2030s that could connect Tokyo and U.S. cities such as New York in just 60 minutes. Civilian space ...

The first article of the Outer Space Treaty (1967) guarantees for all states the right of free access to outer space. This principle of states’ free access to outer space is also recognized as a rule ...

Today's quest for dominance in outer space looks quite different from the first space race between the U.S. and Russia in the 1950s. The new book "Rocket Dreams" looks into the new era, including the ...

The United Nations’ General Assembly, the U.N.’s main deliberative body, starts its 80th session in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Among those who will closely follow the session’s deliberations on ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...