Distance in golf isn’t about keeping up with the Joneses. It doesn’t really matter if your buddy hits the ball 10 yards past ...

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

MIT astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team’s novel technique might also ...

I've been studying a type of object that I called a dark comet—which could be just the culprit. In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered two classes of these ...

When tape measures fall short, the best laser measure can help. We put the best laser measures to the test here.

That means brown dwarfs can be defined as planetary-mass objects ... the two brown dwarfs orbit each other at a distance equivalent to just 16 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Precision sensor supplier Micro-Epsilon has updated its non-contact laser distance sensor portfolio with a unit that ... structured or weakly reflecting objects. Without any special adaptations to the ...

This project aims to design and implement a distance control system for a vehicle using affordable and widely available components. The system employs an ultrasonic sensor to continuously monitor the ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans ... the muscular adaptations that enable modern humans to run long distances, says Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist ...

The new research, published December 9 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also shows that there are two ... objects could be found in the main asteroid belt, between ...

Under their respective leaders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply in recent years. This sets the ...