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The moon shines with a swarm of stars on May 21 as...
The moon glows with the Beehive Cluster on May 21, as a trio of planets form up in the evening sky.
The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution cl...
When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever b...
Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gen...
Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins’s first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers’s des...
After news about Oliver Sacks's "lies", we revisit...
Last year, The New Yorker revealed the late Sacks's "guilt" about his “falsification” in The Man Who...
NASA's Psyche probe takes amazing images of Mars o...
NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final ta...
The universe's 'most relaxed' galaxy cluster was s...
What's the truth behind this unusually tranquil city of galaxies?
How to watch SpaceX launch its 1st Starship V3 meg...
SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket will fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), and you...
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base...
We may finally know why dinosaurs like T. rex evol...
Five different groups of predatory dinosaurs independently evolved disproportionately small arms, an...
Lasers in moon craters could create a lunar GPS sy...
Scientists are exploring how lasers stabilized in the moon's coldest, darkest craters could enable a...
Worker dies at SpaceX's Starbase in leadup to Star...
A worker died at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company...
'The Mandalorian and Grogu' clip reveals how Mando...
'Well, let’s call it an advance on the next mission.'
Vast, builder of private space stations, launches ...
The California startup Vast, which is best known for its space station plans, announced today (May 1...
See Jupiter glow beside the waxing moon after suns...
The moon dances with the king of the planets, with the horizon as their stage.
The distant world that is our best hope of finding...
A decade ago, we discovered an exceptionally exciting exoplanet that could be the best candidate for...
Solar farm on the ocean outperforms land-based sol...
A solar farm in a tidal bay has generated more electricity and profits than a nearby coastal solar f...
NASA satellite will test orbital 'gas station' tec...
The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will help NASA test and develop technologies to supp...
Galactic starlight will take your breath away | Sp...
The galaxy M77 looks truly out-of-this-world in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve sh...
If wind-assisted cargo ships chose routes based entirely on where the winds are better, their fuel u...
As 'The Mandalorian and Grogu" prepare for their c...
'Star Wars' used to be the ultimate theatrical experience, but have years of Disney+ spin-offs dulle...
Colossal claims an artificial eggshell will help i...
Colossal Biosciences, the company that says it resurrected the dire wolf, now says it has developed ...
Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping s...
Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Tr...
Odd “butterfly” molecule could lead to new parts o...
An exotic new molecule is shaped like a butterfly, complete with "wings" made from electrons. The di...
The UFO files: What did we learn from the Pentagon...
On May 8, the Pentagon released its first tranche of "UFO files." Space.com reached out to experts t...
The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not ...
Robots are becoming more a part of our lives every year, and worries about a robot army rising up ha...
Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos ma...
In central Laos, the landscape is littered with enormous stone jars, some 3 metres high, and we may ...
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice...
"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."
'Voidverse' is a seriously weird space fantasy nov...
'For the atmosphere and world of 'Voidverse' to work, I needed the characters and the prose to meld ...
Why bringing back 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' isn'...
'The Mandalorian and Grogu' should not have been a theatrical release… and it maybe shouldn't exist ...
What time is SpaceX's Starship V3 launch on May 20...
SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Wednesday (May 20)....
Watch Vega C rocket launch European-Chinese space ...
A Vega C rocket will launch the European-Chinese SMILE space weather mission to orbit tonight (May 1...
Floatation tanks deployed to combat PTSD after dev...
Maui in Hawaii experienced some of the worst wildfires in US history in 2023. Amid concerns of a PTS...
What is love? Even a meeting on the subject can't ...
Scientists recently gathered for a conference called Love, Actually and in Theory, but didn't settle...
How I used psychology to come back from the worst ...
Work, illness, divorce: life is riddled with stressors out of your control. But research is revealin...
This amazing NASA video shows the exact moment the...
A new NASA video shows the Artemis 2 Orion capsule's separation from its service module just before ...
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st-ever...
SpaceX is targeting a Wednesday, May 20, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 mega...
Northern lights may be visible in several US state...
Forecasts say up to three glancing CME impacts could trigger G1 and possible G2 geomagnetic storms t...
The 3 things you need to know about protein, accor...
Why have so many people become fixated on protein? Donald Layman is one of the people behind the res...
The Ebola emergency shines a light on the urgent n...
A little-known strain of Ebola virus is behind an ongoing health emergency, prompting researchers to...
Manhattanhenge 2026 is coming this month: Here's w...
Twice a year, the setting sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan's street grid, creating one of New Yor...
Your body clock has seasonal rhythms and it matter...
We think of our body clock ticking over on a 24-hour cycle, but evidence is growing that it has seas...
Not a big reveal: Apollo 'UFO' images have been pu...
Much of the UFO imagery that the Pentagon released last week was new, but we've known for decades ab...
'Avatar: Fire and Ash' finally has a Disney+ relea...
Director James Cameron's third chapter in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise lands June 24
The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about ...
The floating ice shelf of world’s widest glacier – Thwaites glacier in Antarctica – is detaching, wi...
SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellat...
The space industry's plans to launch millions of satellites worry scientists as the rise in high-alt...
The hidden pockets of the universe where the futur...
Inside some very special black holes, there may be a boundary called a Cauchy horizon. Columnist Lea...
Watch NASA's new Mars helicopter rotor break the s...
NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of...
