Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...

On Sept. 18, 1965, amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya and professional astronomer Tsutomu Seki each independently discovered what ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes will be announced this Thursday. The awards are given for scientific research that sparks humor first and contemplation later.

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA’s tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...