Science
SpaceX moves giant Super Heavy rocket to pad ahead...
SpaceX has moved its giant Super Heavy booster to the launch pad ahead of Sunday's (Aug. 24) planned...
Astronomers discover strange new type of supernova...
A weird and extremely violent new type of supernova in which a massive star was "stripped to the bon...
We could get most metals for clean energy without ...
An analysis of active US mines finds they already collect virtually all of the minerals the country ...
The colour of your car has a big impact on urban h...
Dark-coloured cars can make a measurable difference on nearby air temperature, and in cities of mill...
How do the biggest stars in the universe grow so l...
Some stars in the universe grow to 300 times larger our own sun. But how do they get so big, and how...
If aliens explore space like humans do, NASA scien...
Studying the signals that humanity beams through the solar system has allowed a team of NASA researc...
How to tackle environmental issues when the world ...
The failure to agree a global treaty on plastic pollution highlights how the UN’s requirement for un...
'It's not over!' — Invasion' Season 3 clip carries...
Our heroic Navy SEAL gets interrogated years after the alien mothership plummets to Earth
Black Moon darkens August skies — here's how to hu...
The Double Cluster, Wild Duck open Cluster, and Coathanger asterism are on display in August.
Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12...
Astronomers used the Einstein Probe to track a powerful blast of X-rays back to its source in the ea...
There might be a 'Planet Y' hiding in the outer so...
Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesis...
Reining in the sun: Venus, Earth and Jupiter may w...
Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful...
Watch SpaceX launch US Space Force's classified X-...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will liftoff Thursday, Aug. 21, with the Boeing-built X-37B space plane for...
Watch sun unleash back-to-back plasma blasts in 's...
Two colossal plasma fountains tore away from the sun in a breathtaking double blast, one of the most...
Curiosity rover images 3 intersecting Mars ridges ...
As part of its exploration of Mars's boxwork landscape, Curiosity found itself in a fork-in-the-road...
Lunar Strike is a hard sci-fi adventure game about...
Save the world and our lunar history in Lunar Strike, the 2026 sci-fi narrative adventure game that ...
Our brain doesn't actually reorganise itself after...
Previous research in macaques suggests that part of the brain reorganises itself when a limb is remo...
Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads hel...
Edible microbeads made of vitamin E and seaweed helped rats lose weight by absorbing excess fat in t...
A partial solar eclipse is coming: 1 month until t...
A deep partial solar eclipse will grace the Southern Hemisphere on Sept. 21, 2025, with the best vie...
Artemis 2 astronauts suit up for nighttime moon la...
If there's one thing astronauts know, it's "practice, practice, practice."
Test your true terrestrial trivia with our Earth q...
This quiz will explore the science behind the scenery, the facts behind the familiar, and the wonder...
Forget Galactus, 'Strange New Worlds'' ancient sca...
Join us as director Valerie Weiss breaks down this 'Trekiest' episode of the sci-fi series yet.
US Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane will ...
The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane will test a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of ...
Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billi...
A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditio...
Super-cool cement could stop buildings trapping he...
A new formulation of cement reflects and emits heat more effectively than normal Portland cement, so...
This Chappell Roan song boosted interest in a Cana...
Chappell Roan mentioned Canada's Saskatchewan just days before Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park ho...
New tactical roguelite game 'Battlestar Galactica:...
Battlestar Galactica meets FTL in this just-announced "story-rich tactical roguelite" from the maker...
A new angle on brain health could bring much-neede...
Psychiatric medicine hasn't changed much since the 1960s. Could blocking the effects of chronic infl...
Russia launches mice, microbes and more on monthlo...
Russia launched its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite today (Aug. 20), sending 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies an...
Watch a bright fireball explode above Japan, turni...
A fireball exploded into life in the skies above Japan on Aug. 19, briefly turning night to day befo...
Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the n...
Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come u...
Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial d...
A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but ...
Artificial superfood for bees boosts colony reprod...
A dietary supplement made from engineered yeast could help honeybees thrive despite the declining av...
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agen...
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says it's time for the agency to focus on the moon and Mars, no...
Pragmata rethinks sci-fi shooter combat, and it ow...
After five years, Pragmata could have been unambitious, but instead, it's a fascinating and innovati...
NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares b...
An AI model trained on years of data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory can predict the sun’s fu...
South Korea's K-RadCube radiation satellite will h...
South Korea's K-RadCube satellite has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its...
Astronauts get stuffy noses in space because of mi...
Scientists are calling attention to an extremely common health problem that's been making astronauts...
Semiconductor wafer on ISS goes under the microsco...
This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown ...
'Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 4' revealed, with a ne...
Warhammer 40K's most iconic real-time strategy series is back next year and under new leadership.
Nocs Provisions Zero Tube 10x25 waterproof monocul...
Your new favorite lightweight spotting companion — the Noca Provisions Zero Tube.
SpaceX partners with astronomers to protect radio ...
An automated system co-developed by SpaceX prevents disruption to radio astronomical observations ca...
Lesser-known food allergens are actually behind ma...
Foods like goat or sheep milk and buckwheat are behind many cases of severe allergic reactions, but ...
Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding...
Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create fl...
The Milky Way's faintest satellite may not be what...
A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more t...
Supernovas are hard to detect. Scientists just fou...
Astronomers have learned how to find supernova explosions in their earliest stages, giving us an unp...
Pixar's 'Elio' stars get space food tips from a re...
The family-friendly animated outer space flick scores its home video release starting today (Aug. 19...
'NASA is science': How real space exploration insp...
We chatted to Moleskine President Ward Simmons about their new NASA-inspired notebook collection.
New moon discovered orbiting Uranus is its smalles...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranu...
Brain implant lets man 'experience joy' for the fi...
A device that has been likened to a pacemaker for the brain has given a man with severe depression g...
