Science
China's 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bo...
A new study highlights the volcanic Rimae Bode region as a scientifically promising destination for ...
Spectacular fireball over Europe sends meteorite c...
A meteorite has crashed through the roof of a house after thousands observed a stunning fireball str...
SpaceX's Ship 39 is so cool in Starship V3 test| S...
SpaceX engineers tested Ship 39's propellant system, leading to some stunning images.
Smart telescope buying made easy: Your guide to Un...
Our expert gives you a rundown of the main smart telescope brands and models.
'Project Hail Mary''s final teaser trailer is 'Ama...
'I really wanted this incredible friendship to be true to the book.'
Future spacecraft could fix their own damage using...
Spacecraft of the future may be able to detect and repair their own structural damage in orbit, a ca...
The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in...
A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two leg...
SETI may have missed alien signals because of spac...
SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was s...
Congress wants the International Space Station to ...
Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercia...
Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to ...
Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic...
SpaceX springs forward with another Starlink launc...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East a...
I spoke to the writers behind the trippy new sci-f...
"If Neil deGrasse Tyson read this book, he would not be thrilled."
A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating ...
Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key s...
Where are all the aliens? Maybe space weather is s...
We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detecto...
A jellyfish or a brain? Tell us what you see in th...
The nebula was formed when a star went supernova 5,000 light-years from Earth.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 200 — Our 200t...
On Episode 200 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik celebrate their 200th episode with th...
Bungie explains Marathon's 'graphic retro futurism...
As "Marathon" finally launches, we grill a trio of Bungie developers about the world, aesthetic, and...
Sigweis night vision binoculars review
We love these night vision binoculars, but we don't love having to buy new batteries so often.
Living in space can change where your brain sits i...
Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brai...
Fujifilm X-H2 camera review
While not having any astro-specific features, the X-H2 still performed well — although we'd hesitate...
How an intern helped build the AI that shook the w...
Chris Maddison was just an intern when he started working on the Go-playing AI that would eventually...
The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived ...
Will Proba-3 phone home? European solar-eclipse sa...
One of Europe's two Proba-3 spacecraft suffered an anomaly last month, putting the future of the sol...
The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime:...
The catalog of gravitational waves "heard" by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of s...
Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking th...
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged...
NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun fo...
NASA’s DART mission slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the impact slowed its orb...
Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any lif...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity...
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Can't wait for Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Make the wait a little less painful, with 20% off this ser...
Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how ...
Persistent inflammation in the gut, lungs and skin might lead to Alzheimer's disease, but lifestyle ...
NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to t...
A big restructuring of NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding u...
The best new popular science books of March 2026
A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our ...
The Marathon Collector’s Edition nails the assignm...
As Bungie’s extraction shooter welcomes players to Tau Ceti IV, we’ve taken a good look at its hefty...
Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean curren...
Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream wil...
Cosmic Hawk spreads its wings| Space photo of the ...
The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Tel...
Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid im...
"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another."
Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ beginner tele...
This Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 70AZ is best for observing planets and the moon.
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previo...
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five...
Nightfox Whisker night vision binoculars review
Are the Nightfox Whisker the best Nightfox night vision binoculars yet?
Crush the Rebels for less with money off this mena...
This Lego Star Wars AT-AT walker only debuted in January 2026 and you can already save 5% on this sh...
Stunning Mars image highlights one of Red Planet's...
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cra...
Enjoy 'For All Mankind' spinoff series 'Star City'...
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The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have...
Watch Japan's 1st HTV-X cargo craft leave the Inte...
Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will depart the International Space Station today (March 6) after...
Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and w...
Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Physicist Vladimir Brlja...
Is Nus Braka's weapon in the latest "Starfleet Aca...
There's something refreshingly familiar about the Omega 47 weapon in "300th Night"
Watch Rocket Lab launch mystery mission for confid...
Rocket Lab will launch a mystery mission for a confidential commercial customer this evening (March ...
Good news for the moon: Famous asteroid 2024 YR4 w...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid imp...
Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and...
A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you...
March is a great time to spot the odd glow of zodi...
The zodiacal light is at its most visible on the nights surrounding the spring and autumn equinoxes....
Making hummus on the moon? Scientists just grew ch...
Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielde...
