Latest articles by Mindy Weisberger
X, The Moonshot Factory tackles global problems with solutions so outlandish that they just might work.
The ground under Antarctica's ice is on the move, rising more rapidly than ever recorded.
Russia's space agency is developing a novel method for dealing with space junk: vaporizing it with lasers.
Trillions of tons of ice melted away from Antarctica during the past 25 years.
Not everyone is prepared to welcome robot overlords.
Could anything disrupt NYC's "Manhattanhenge" sunsets?
Physicists recently addressed a persistent flaw in a test that defines reality.
When our sun finally goes out, what will it look like?
German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss used math to find the lost dwarf planet Ceres, and a Google Doodle commemorates what would have been his 241st birthday.
If Earth were to spin in the opposite direction, it would transform the world as we know it.
Is the sun due for a cosmic family reunion?
For some NASA scientists, the extreme environments they study aren't on a distant planet or moon — they're right here on Earth.
The space travel of science fiction could be closer than you think.
Delve into the science of science fiction as Live Science visits Future Con in Washington, D.C.
China's Tiangong-1 space station isn't the first spacecraft to shed bits of junk onto Earth, and it won't be the last.
A space helmet "theater" showed me an astronaut's view of Earth.
Elon Musk's spacefaring Tesla Roadster is likely carrying the biggest bacteria payload to ever leave Earth.
The crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) will soon welcome a new member, described by its creators as "a kind of flying brain."
A new milestone for the world's biggest plane rolls it closer to leaving the ground.
The sun may be dimming, temporarily. Don't panic; Earth is not going to freeze over. But will the resulting cooling put a dent in the global warming trend?
Billions of airborne viruses waft down on us every day, carried by air currents that disperse them around the world.
The "Doomsday Clock," a hypothetical countdown to global Armageddon, gets a new position.
Last year was one of the three warmest years on record, according to a new report by NASA and NOAA.
