Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which we’re all the characters.

Described as a "knowledge collider," and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the European Union, the Living Earth Simulator is a new big data and supercomputing project that will attempt to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Researchers simulated temperature trends and tectonic plate movement to monitor their impact on mammals.

The concept of a digital twin as a dynamic replica of a physical system is being adopted in many fields of science and ...

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection. (Johns Hopkins University ...

The simulation hypothesis is an impressive logical and philosophical argument that has challenged our fundamental notions of reality.

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.