On Aug. 14, 2019, a gravitational wave -- a massive ripple through the fabric of space-time -- washed over the Earth. The wave was detected by sophisticated, fine-tuned lasers in the U.S. and Italy.

The crew stands atop the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut in this 2018 photo. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A US Navy submarine collided with an object in the Indo-Pacific, the ...

A US Navy nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine struck an object underwater in the Indo-Pacific earlier this month. The Seawolf-class submarine USS Connecticut was damaged, and an unknown number of ...

The solar system's strange cigar-shaped visitor 'Oumuamua—Hawaiian for "scout" or "messenger"—is tumbling chaotically as the result of a violent collision. And the interstellar object will continue to ...

Every couple of months we get a request from someone for a course on avoiding fixed object collisions. Usually, we don’t even get that much detail in the request, it’s just “do you have a fixed object ...

The computer graphics community is always interested in faster methods to generate images. This is why Pixar and several other organizations are funding the research of a Carnegie Mellon University ...

You may be surprised to learn that a “mysterious object dubbed ‘WT1190F’” is headed directly for Earth. THIS IS TRUE. But scientists now have a pretty good idea what it is—and think it will probably ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...