Science
America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276?...
When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might w...
Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scient...
Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit ter...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satell...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base i...
SpaceX fires up all 6 of Starship's engines ahead ...
SpaceX completed a Starship engine test at its Starbase facility recently, igniting all six of the v...
'Silo' season 3: Release date & how to watch Apple...
Say so long to the sunshine as we plunge back into the deep mysteries of Silo 18.
Apollo 11 landing site, a cosmic Eagle and a blue-...
From the Apollo landing site to the North America Nebula, these celestial sights offer a uniquely Am...
'Stellar death is not the end': James Webb Space T...
"It's like using a time machine to peer into the distant future of our solar system."
June heatwave may have killed around 20,000 people...
It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but resear...
Random wobbles in time could finally solve gravity...
The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a no...
Astronomers discover a potentially habitable plane...
Astronomers discovered a planet 25 light-years away that orbits within the habitable zone of its sta...
Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve li...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to prov...
Geoengineering could expose plane passengers to su...
A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles w...
The best new popular science books of July 2026
From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular scienc...
How to invade planet Earth: An alien's guide to br...
From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with adv...
July full moon 2026: When, where and how to see th...
Your guide to July's full Buck Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.
In 1776, the moon was a clock, a calendar and a st...
The moon over America's first Independence Day was about 31 feet closer to Earth than it is today. H...
Sun fires off 10 solar flares in 24 hours as multi...
Multiple CMEs are heading toward Earth, with G1-G2 geomagnetic storm conditions possible as the holi...
Steven Spielberg sci-fi movies ranked, worst to be...
Disclosure Day has arrived in cinemas, and it's got us nostalgic for all Steven Spielberg's best dir...
Have scientists really made a living cell from scr...
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial g...
What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengin...
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial g...
Watch Atlas V rocket launch 29 Amazon Leo broadban...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch 29 Amazon Leo internet satellites to orbit from ...
'Rocket's Red Glare': How NASA's Artemis 2 moon mi...
NASA joined in the semiquincentennial celebrations this year by painting "America 250" on the rocket...
This weird 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet has a hotspot i...
Astronomers have discovered a curious new exoplanet that challenges assumptions about hot Jupiters, ...
The growing number of satellites in orbit could so...
If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study...
July's planetary lineup is changing — and Venus is...
Venus dominates the evening sky while Saturn, Mars and Uranus put on a show for early risers.
The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrit...
A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standa...
NASA will send a soccer ball to the moon —if the U...
NASA will send a soccer ball to the moon if the United States wins the FIFA World Cup, agency chief ...
A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release appr...
A form of fibre that boosts the release of the hunger-reducing hormone GLP-1 has been approved as sa...
Ocean-monitoring satellite spots wildfire smoke fr...
A NASA satellite has found an unintended, important purpose.
New NASA space telescope images reveal the univers...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in re...
In 1776, the solar system only had 6 planets. Now,...
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system te...
Powerful X-class solar flare triggers radio blacko...
A coronal mass ejection accompanied the X1.1 solar flare.
The best new science-fiction novels published in J...
Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi...
NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even b...
A new NASA audit says the agency will need to purchase more astronaut flights to the ISS by 2030 and...
Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and ...
Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic M...
'PROMISE' me the moon? NASA wants to send spare nu...
NASA has announced new lunar landing contracts for its Artemis Moon Base program, as well as a poten...
Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese Earth-observing r...
Rocket Lab will launch its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS tonight (June ...
Blue Origin starts rebuilding launch pad damaged b...
Blue Origin has started rebuilding the launch pad damaged by the explosion of its New Glenn rocket l...
‘Just in time for Canada Day’: Spacewalking astron...
Expedition 74 flight engineers Chris Williams and Jessica Meir conducted a seven-hour spacewalk to r...
The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per sec...
The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatom...
Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma ...
Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA...
'Star Fox' is an eye-catching reimagining of a tim...
Nintendo and Velan Studios' high-fidelity remake of Star Fox 64 for Switch 2 is an arcade-y blast fr...
The most detailed survey of the universe ever cond...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, wh...
This physicist is hunting for the biggest black ho...
Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains...
Rubin Observatory begins filming the 'greatest cos...
"With the launch of the ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the Rubin Observatory is opening a...
Babies are born with the neural foundations for ma...
Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate ...
America 250: How has telescope technology evolved ...
Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from the homemade tel...
Europe's deadly heat wave seen from space | Space ...
Europe's Sentinel-3 satellite captured data that helps visualize June's deadly heat wave, allowing r...
I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISP...
When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks lef...
