AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of nature, and five years on it has rewired how laboratories plan experiments, ...

Mankind hasn't yet explored some of the most interesting objects in our own solar system — heck, we still don't even know all that much about Earth itself — but that isn't stopping NASA from setting ...

Thirteen months after the space startup's first attempt ended in an explosion, it has declared "100% mission success" for Saturday's launch. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earthlings may have left boot prints on the moon, but even nearby stars, such as the bright Alpha ...