"The question is: How prepared are we for the next cosmic threat?" The flyby of an actual, but harmless, space rock may provide some answers.

Arctic sea ice is not merely a passive responder to the climate changes occurring around the world, according to new research.

As the number of white residents in a neighborhood declines, noise levels go up. And segregated cities are louder than others, report researchers.

HP Inc. and NVIDIA® teamed up with Autodesk, Fusion, Launch Forth, Technicolor, Unreal Engine and VIVE to launch HP Mars Home Planet – a global project using virtual reality to simulate what a human population of one million could look like on Mars.