A famous legend claims Abraham de Moivre calculated the exact date of his death using a sleep pattern formula. But did he truly predict it, or is history hiding a myth?

China’s vast tree-planting drive around the Taklamakan Desert may be turning shifting sands into a carbon sink. But can ...

If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 03: Jared Isaacman, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator, testifies during his confirmation hearing ...

In what Sen. Ted Cruz referred to as a “Groundhog Day” Senate committee hearing Wednesday, billionaire Jared Isaacman saw bipartisan support for a second time as President Trump’s nominee to be the ...

(CNN) — A rare spectacle played out on Capitol Hill as Jared Isaacman — the billionaire tech entrepreneur and Elon Musk ally who has been tapped to serve as NASA administrator — faced a second ...

Isaacman also faced questions about the Project Athena document — a 62-page outline of his plans for the space agency that was recently leaked. When asked about the document Wednesday, Isaacman said ...