A method for quickly predicting the forces needed to push objects through soft, granular materials could help engineers drive robots or anchor ships.

Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.

Swirling waters replenish nutrients in open ocean, a new study finds, and could mitigate some climate change effects.

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.

The moon sustained twice as many impacts as can be seen on its surface, scientists find.

Just 33 light years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets.

The varied surface suggests a dynamic history, which could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, and a lost rocky mantle.

The findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar material.

A novel photolithography technique could be a manufacturing game-changer for optical applications.