Science
Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospac...
Backed by a $1.1 billion valuation, Skyroot Aerospace is betting that its Vikram-1 rocket can help t...
Space junk debris cloud discovered in high-traffic...
"The debris in geosynchronous orbit is a potential minefield."
Reflect Orbital just got permission to launch its ...
Reflect Orbital just got approval to launch its first light-directing space mirror, which it plans t...
Two Asian mantis species just got Europe’s harshes...
Two large Asian praying mantis species have established breeding populations across parts of Europe....
A Parkinson’s-linked protein can spread from cell ...
A protein associated with Parkinson’s disease can move from one brain cell to another. Yale research...
Every year, a single bristlecone pine named Methus...
High in California's White Mountains, a Great Basin bristlecone pine called Methuselah has been layi...
Why space games still struggle with the scale of t...
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
149 million views! Artemis II moon mission breaks ...
The Artemis II astronauts made an impact on potentially hundreds of millions of people during their ...
The human bloodstream now carries an average of 1....
A 2022 Dutch study first quantified plastic in human blood at 1.6 micrograms per milliliter. Follow-...
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tiss...
California-based company Auxilium Biotechnologies just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for...
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive because...
Every banana contains potassium-40, a radioactive isotope with a 1.25-billion-year half-life. Health...
Columbia researchers combed through 9,000 patient ...
A chemical messenger best known for shaping mood may also help decide when a diseased heart valve fa...
1 month until the total solar eclipse 2026 — Here'...
The countdown is on! It's not too late to plan your trip for the total solar eclipse 2026.
The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 t...
The human gut lining rebuilds itself every four to five days, driven by Lgr5-positive stem cells at ...
Your lost dog can now call home with the world's 1...
A new dog collar with GPS tracking enabled by SpaceX's Starlink direct-to-mobile network promises co...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 218 — Which Wa...
On Episode 218 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss NASA's new moonbase plans wit...
Sci-fi action movies were better in the '90s. 'Ind...
Superheroes and franchises haven't always ruled the multiplex…
In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Mie...
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The Roman Pantheon’s unreinforced concrete dome ha...
Hadrian's builders finished the Pantheon's 142-foot concrete dome around 128 CE, using progressively...
Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only an...
Wombats are the only animal on Earth known to produce cube-shaped droppings, formed by uneven stiffn...
Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to ...
Reykjavík's Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to build and was designed by architect Guðjón Samúe...
A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a ...
Cymothoa exigua is the only known parasite that anatomically replaces one of its host's organs. It e...
In 1856, an 18-year-old chemistry student named Wi...
In 1856, a teenage chemistry student named William Perkin tried to synthesize the antimalarial drug ...
In 1847, Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis w...
In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis proved that doctors coming from autopsies were killing new mothers, and th...
The Sun launches roughly a trillion kilograms of c...
A coronal mass ejection carries roughly a billion tonnes of solar plasma across 150 million kilometr...
Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in d...
Off the coast of Washington and British Columbia, resident and transient killer whales share the sam...
White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb t...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study U...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hau...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flew for the 35th time tonight (July 10), carrying 29 Starlink satellites t...
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google...
In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally ca...
A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our...
A feeding black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to cosmic titans that exi...
Launching from 2 continents: Germany's Isar Aerosp...
German company Isar Aerospace is expanding its operations overseas after signing an agreement with C...
SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship...
SpaceX completed an engine test of the next Super Heavy booster slated to launch Starship's next mis...
These rare glowing 'space clouds' are summer's bes...
Now is the time to look for noctilucent clouds — shimmering ice clouds that glow near the edge of sp...
UN space database aimed at easing global tensions ...
A list of global space launches designed to calm cold war tensions and promote transparency has been...
Global warming already causing crop losses of over...
Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses wi...
The moon, Mars and the Pleiades form a stunning li...
A slender crescent moon, Mars and Aldebaran and two sparkling star clusters will create a beautiful ...
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last the...
At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's l...
Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots ensures as...
A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and...
Astronomers may have heard the 1st 'whispers' of g...
The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of star...
Don't miss out on 'The Ark' Season 3 — get a year-...
Watch SYFY's outer space saga 'The Ark' on Peacock TV and all the best sci-fi content at a bargain p...
The sneaky maths trick for solving problems withou...
How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, c...
Making history! China lands rocket during an orbit...
A Chinese Long March 10B rocket aced its debut launch on Friday (July 10), sending a satellite to or...
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, is one orga...
In Utah's Fishlake National Forest, a single quaking aspen called Pando spans 106 acres, weighs 6,00...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from...
On September 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a two-week holiday to find a mold spore had k...
2026 eclipse: 5 citizen science projects you can c...
During the August 2026 solar eclipse, scientists will be rushing to gather data on the sun, but even...
In 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance...
On July 22, 1962, an Atlas-Agena rocket carrying America's first interplanetary probe was destroyed ...
Wally Funk, trailblazing pilot and astronaut, pass...
Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation an...
Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever ...
Using the ESA's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of black hole-p...
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Starlink satellites...
SpaceX has applied for approval to operate a 100,000-member megaconstellation of next-gen Starlink s...
