Science
Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experimen...
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky worked outside the International Space Stati...
Comet Lemmon's ghostly tail haunts the skies above...
Photographer Josh Dury has captured a gorgeous view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) brightening the skie...
The centre of our galaxy may be teeming with dark ...
A mysterious excess of gamma rays in the middle of the Milky Way may come from dark matter particles...
Watch SpaceX's Super Heavy Starship booster hover ...
SpaceX video from Starship's Oct. 13 launch shows the rocket's Super Heavy booster hovering over the...
Dry ice may burrow through Mars like sandworms in ...
Blocks of carbon dioxide ice appear to carve mysterious gullies on Mars as they melt down dune slope...
There's a simple way we could drastically cut AI e...
If users chose the most efficient model each time they performed a task with AI, researchers calcula...
Watch the 2nd-ever launch of China's record-breaki...
The Chinese company Orienspace's Gravity-1 solid rocket launched for the second time ever on Oct. 10...
Vast gearing up to launch its Haven-1 private spac...
Vast's Haven-1 is poised to become the first privately built space station, marking a turning point ...
Are biofuels a good idea? Only if you're a farmer ...
The rush to grow more biofuels continues, despite the fact they increase CO2 emissions rather than l...
Rule-breaking black hole destroys star in puzzling...
The so-called tidal disruption event also produced two puzzling delayed outbursts.
Watch Europe's upcoming PLATO exoplanet hunter spr...
PLATO powered up and extended its solar panels as the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft readies for launc...
This Lego Star Wars set is an awesome recreation o...
A brilliant focal point for any Star Wars Lego collection, this 700-piece set has a 20% saving in th...
New space debris shield? Satellites and astronauts...
Humanity has a new tool in the fight against space junk — "Space Armor," a multi-functional composit...
School phone bans may actually harm some students'...
The evidence to support phone bans in schools has been inconclusive, and now it seems that the move ...
Where the ridge meets the river | Space photo of t...
From above Earth, LandSat 9's keen eye captures a stunning Y-shaped meeting of ridge and river in Ch...
Northern lights may be visible in 15 US states ton...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Iowa as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for tonight...
Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' ...
Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a s...
'Star Wars,' 'Blade Runner,' and 'The Thing' poste...
Struzan's signature artwork defined an entire generation of Hollywood filmmaking.
Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the I...
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy will conduct a spacewalk outside the ISS to...
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on...
SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), sending ...
Not-so-dark matter? Mysterious substance might lea...
A new study suggests dark matter could subtly tint or polarize light, leaving faint color clues that...
Watch a charred SpaceX Starship land in the ocean ...
New SpaceX footage from Starship Flight 11 shows the final moments of Oct. 13 mission, which ended w...
Why the next generation of mRNA vaccines is set to...
Scientists are designing mRNA vaccines to produce virus-like nanoparticles, which should lead to a m...
Ancient lead exposure may have influenced how our ...
Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient homi...
Why October is the perfect time to look for the An...
October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in th...
How scientists are using spinning dead stars to fi...
Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect p...
Watch the moment a brilliant green fireball meteor...
A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly ...
Asteroid discovered only 2 days ago will fly by Ea...
A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will safely fly by our planet Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the d...
'Predator: Badlands' is getting a prequel comic, b...
This official tie-in title was created in collaboration with the film's director, Dan Trachtenberg.
Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropod...
A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ lon...
The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to...
In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the uni...
CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere jumped by a recor...
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year...
A new private moon lander rises: Impulse Space thr...
Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just announced that...
Watch SpaceX launch 21 communications satellites f...
SpaceX plans to launch 21 satellites for an advanced new U.S. military constellation this evening (O...
A giant weak spot in Earth's magnetic field is get...
Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half...
The AI bubble is heading towards a burst but it wo...
Economists, bankers and even the boss of OpenAI are warning of a rapidly inflating AI bubble. If and...
Satellites watch as record-breaking ocean waves ca...
Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves ca...
Deep-space dishes dot the desert | Space photo of ...
Beneath the shadow of Chile's Licancabur volcano, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (...
Did a NASA exoplanet-hunting balloon really 'crash...
NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the miss...
Solar wind tears a chunk from Comet Lemmon's tail ...
See how the solar wind shredded Comet Lemmon's tail in an extraordinary view from Earth
Getting even bigger: What's next for SpaceX's Star...
SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket for the 11th time on Monday (Oct. 13), on a successful test ...
Best space strategy games, ranked
Conquer the cosmos and lead ships, fleets, and even entire civilizations to victory in the best spac...
Who were the first humans to reach the British Isl...
As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the...
NASA lays off 550 employees at Jet Propulsion Labo...
NASA has announced a new wave of layoffs at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as the agency undergoes a...
What is the weak nuclear force and why is it impor...
The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest...
Paralysed man can feel objects through another per...
Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move ...
Aurora alert! 4 coronal mass ejections are racing ...
Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of ...
Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the ...
The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have be...
We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s...
A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by ...
The terrifying Apex Alien in 'Invasion' Season 3 i...
An Apex Alien joins Mitsuki atop a hillside in "Invasion"
