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We explore the curious anatomy of Queen guitarist Brian May's guitar, which includes knitting needles and wood from a 300-year-old fireplace.

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries.