Benchmark Macaw ASCENT thruster during hotfire testing Benchmark’s 22-Newton Macaw ASCENT thruster during hotfire at the company’s propulsion test facility near Pleasanton, California. Credit: ...

There's no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of a given model on completing various helpful enterprise tasks — from coding to instruction following ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

Fatima Bosch was crowned the 74th Miss Universe on Nov. 21 in Bangkok, Thailand. The newly-crowned Miss Universe, Fatima Bosch, is speaking publicly for the first time since winning the pageant in an ...

Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

Is the universe infinite? It's one of the most profound questions we can ask, and here's the short answer: We don't know. While we have learned a great deal about the universe, a portion of the cosmos ...

Fátima Bosch's victory came nearly two weeks after a heated exchange between her and a Miss Universe pageant executive sparked controversy online LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty On Nov. 20, Miss ...

Fátima Bosch of Mexico has won this year's scandal-plagued Miss Universe competition, just days after she walked out of one of its events in protest. Bosch, 25, was crowned the new Miss Universe on ...

Miss Universe 2025 will take place in Thailand, featuring contestants from 136 countries Tabitha Parent is a writer at PEOPLE covering entertainment and culture. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...