Exit velocity is the speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat. Statcast measures it in miles per hour, and it indicates ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

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Most companies find out about a crisis when it's already a problem. Here's how to build an early warning system that catches trouble early.

Depending on how you look at it, this catchphrase from a 1980s pop song is decently accurate: you can actually melt the ...

The Dodgers have a surplus of intriguing outfield prospects, but here's who have separated themselves from the pack.

Q-day will occur when a state acquires a quantum computer powerful enough to crack the encryption on which modern life ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

The passage of time is fundamental to the theory of relativity: how you realize it, how you calculate it, and what influences it,” said Bijunath Patla, a physicist at the National Institute of ...

But the pitching staff? That’s another matter altogether. The Red Sox have traded for two starting pitchers to add to their ...