PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The ...

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been conducting a mission to the asteroid called Ryugu since the Hayabusa 2 probe launched in 2014. The mission will soon lower the Hayabusa 2 probe to the surface of ...

This video is the first in a series of “five amazing physics demonstrations” presented by demo aficionado Neil Downie. In addition to his day job in industrial science, Downie has run Saturday science ...

Shooting an 18-millimeter-diameter ballistic into a wall of water at 9,000 miles per hour is wild and unprecedented, but the U.S. Navy is throwing money behind the project out of sheer curiosity. And ...

Besides shooting an actual human or a pig carcass, the best way to determine the efficacy of a projectile—like a bullet—is with ballistic gel, which has almost identical density and viscosity to human ...

Budget justification documents released recently by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have shed some more light on a mysterious experimental satellite that in the past has raised suspicions among ...

MERCURY — Chief scientist Neil Holmes doesn't wear a red cape or display a big "S" on his chest, but it goes without saying that the feats his team must do rise to the level of Superman. On Tuesday, ...

New research shows that a surprising amount of water survives simulated asteroid impacts, a finding that may help explain how asteroids deposit water throughout the solar system. Experiments using a ...