Science
Boeing Starliner spacecraft 'go' for 1st astronaut...
Two NASA astronauts, their spacecraft and rocket have been cleared for a historic 1st flight aboard ...
Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling...
The presence of manganese oxide on Mars has positive implications in the search for life beyond Eart...
Celebrate Lego Star Wars Day with 20% off the Mill...
The 1351-piece Lego Millennium Falcon is now 20% off on Amazon and it can be delivered on Star Wars ...
The 2024 Humans to Mars Summit is happening next w...
The annual Humans to Mars Summit takes place next week, with talks focusing on establishing a sustai...
Did the James Webb Space Telescope really find lif...
Despite excitement last year, the James Webb Space Telescope probably hasn't detected life on a dist...
Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 10...
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on May 5, and this year looks favorable for a good light show pu...
Red squirrels were hosts for leprosy in medieval E...
DNA analysis of remains found at medieval sites has identified closely related strains of leprosy-ca...
'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' returns to theater...
This special limited engagement of 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' beginning on May 3 includes an ea...
Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by ...
Simulations of the crust of early Earth show that cycles of pressure caused by geysers or tidal forc...
Citizen scientists find remarkable exoplanet, name...
Citizen scientists have spotted a truly remarkable planet in a binary system's habitable zone. They ...
China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to ...
China continued its run of moon missions today (May 3), launching its bold Chang'e 6 sample-return e...
2 colossal solar flares explode from the sun and E...
Newly emerged sunspot fires off X-class and an M-class solar flares in relatively quick succession. ...
Happy National Space Day 2024! Here's how 8 lucky ...
For National Space Day, SpaceKids Global announces a competition to send eight kids to Florida for a...
The history of the Sith Order in Star Wars
A long, long, time ago in a galaxy far, far away began the ultimate battle of good and evil. Here is...
Flies undertake epic migrations that may be vital ...
Migrating flies can carry pollen hundreds or thousands of kilometres, and this could help plants ada...
How the XRISM spacecraft can study the X-ray unive...
It may have fewer pixels than the screen of a 1989 Game Boy, but the Resolve device on the XRISM spa...
Boeing drone dressed as 'Star Wars' X-wing lands a...
A Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle dressed like a "Star Wars" X-wing fighter has been donated to the Smi...
China is sending its Chang’e 6 spacecraft to the f...
If all goes well, the Chang’e 6 probe will be the first ever to land on the far side of the moon to ...
Mysterious space signals may come from a dead star...
Strange bursts of radio waves called FRBs have long been mysterious, and one of the most famous sour...
Boeing's Starliner is ready to fly astronauts afte...
Boeing's Starliner is finally ready to fly astronauts, after several years of delay. The capsule's d...
Seven surprising things you may not know about roo...
Plants are often celebrated for the parts that are easy to see – flower, leaves, fruit – but scienti...
Indoor climbing wall users may be breathing in tox...
The air and dust in climbing centres contain high levels of rubber particles from the soles of climb...
Rising temperatures are cooking bumblebee nests an...
Climate change could be fueling bumblebee population loss by making hives too hot to handle
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spa...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target ...
Astronauts on the moon could stay fit by running i...
Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.
Watch live: China launching Chang'e 6 mission to f...
China's Chang'e 6 sample return mission to the moon's far side is scheduled to launch early Friday m...
Watch ULA assemble Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing ...
United Launch Alliance's new video highlight's how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing's Starliner...
NASA's Hubble Telescope is back in action — but it...
Both the Hubble Telescope and TESS exoplanet hunter went into safe mode on April 23. Hubble is back ...
NASA selects Rocket Lab for back-to-back climate c...
NASA's PREFIRE mission will deploy a pair of satellites from twin launches aboard Rocket Lab's Elect...
Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds ...
A male Sumatran orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in Indonesian traditional medicine and p...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites tonight in...
SpaceX is scheduled to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (May 2), on ...
Some planets 'death spiral' into their stars and s...
WASP-12b is a planet on a date with a fiery destiny, doomed to plunge into its sun-like star. Scient...
NASA inspector general finds Orion heat shield iss...
NASA's inspector general writes that the Artemis 1 test flight of the Orion spacecraft revealed anom...
Restored Atlas rocket erected on display as Mercur...
Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atl...
NASA picks 9 companies to develop Mars 'commercial...
NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could agency science missions to Mars down...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in o...
A new AI software has helped identify more than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system that had been o...
MMR vaccines may not always give lifelong immunity...
Levels of protection measles provided by the MMR jab fall by a small amount every year, according to...
'Star Trek: Discovery' season 5 episode 6 goes old...
There's nothing quite like a prime directive violation dispute to bring any episode of any Trek seri...
May the deals be with you in the Lego Star Wars Da...
Credits will do fine in the Lego Star Wars Day deals.
Politicians can use social media ads to buy votes ...
An analysis of the 2021 German federal elections has found that for every 200,000 times a politician...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching 2 satellites on r...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch two Maxar Earth-observation satellites today (May 2). It w...
16 best places to see the annular 'ring of fire' s...
Explore the top 16 places to witness the breathtaking annular 'ring of fire' solar eclipse on Oct. 2...
Somehow, Star Wars has returned to Fortnite for Ma...
Star Wars and Fortnite's relationship has been fruitful over the years, but 2024's offerings could b...
Astonishing images show how female Neanderthal may...
The skull of Shanidar Z was found in the Shanidar cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and has been...
