The inner core of the Earth, which is found about 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) under the surface, sits within a molten outer core, and is anchored by gravity. Once commonly thought of as a solid ...

Struggling to get your dog to fetch your slippers? Scientists who strapped eye-tracking helmets to a bunch of dogs have found the perfect tactic to get them to pay attention. Both ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to life-supporting exoplanets ...

DELO Industrial Adhesives introduces its newest light curing product, DELOLUX 30. Replacing the successful DELOLUX 80 series of curing lamps, it aims to further refine the highly customizable ...

For centuries, space travel has been limited by traditional propulsion methods, with chemical rockets remaining the primary means of launching spacecraft beyond Earth. While these rockets have enabled ...

Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research focuses on understanding how ultrathin materials respond to radiation ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day carry tiny spacecraft to distant star systems. The new findings detail ...

Various approaches to lightsails are just one of those technologies. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the Caltech researchers examined the problem of measuring the radiation pressure from a ...

Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to traveling in space. Solar sailing, the most common version, uses pressure from the ...