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Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 ha...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observat...
How the drone battles of Ukraine are shaping the f...
As the Russia-Ukraine war reaches its third anniversary, militaries around the world are watching th...
The 7 most consequential moments in the history of...
From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of c...
When did time begin? Hint: It wasn’t at the big ba...
You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists ...
3D-printed 'hydrogels' could be future space radia...
Technology we already use everyday might be the future of space radiation shielding.
Earth’s oceans may have been green for billions of...
Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, ...
James Webb Space Telescope learns how a cosmic pho...
Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to ...
AI-generated optical illusions can sort humans fro...
Artificial intelligences fail to identify optical illusions in images created by other AIs – so thes...
'Star Trek: Section 31' got us thinking... Should ...
The latest 'Star Trek' movie assumes plenty of prior knowledge of a vast franchise — and it's not al...
Scientists accidentally discover Earth's inner cor...
Researchers discovered that Earth's inner core is surprisingly viscous.
CAR T-cells enable record-breaking 18-year nerve c...
A person with neuroblastoma, which occurs when developing nerve cells in children turn cancerous, ha...
The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in t...
For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars ma...
From headaches to tics, how mass nocebo effects sp...
Social media is enabling health symptoms and mass psychogenic illnesses to spread quickly around the...
Does the moon look smaller tonight? Here's why a '...
The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so sl...
Eight habits that could keep your heart healthy
From staying active to getting plenty of sleep, there are many ways to keep your heart healthy
Watch the sun erupt in new images from NOAA's weat...
A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star's fiery out...
Some planet-forming stars never 'grow up' and lose...
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass sta...
China launches hunt for ways to protect data from ...
Efforts to develop next-generation cryptography algorithms that can't be broken by quantum computers...
Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their ...
By tracking the TV signal back to the plane that was reflecting it towards the Murchison Wide-field ...
Pompeii’s streets show how the city adapted to Rom...
Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn...
'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimate...
Continent-size blobs in Earth's mantle are a billi...
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of ...
'Sailing' satellites of the future could provide e...
'Sailing' satellites of the future could provide early warning of dangerous space weather
The best sci-fi TV shows of the 1950s
A list of 10 influential science fiction TV series from the '50s
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 148 — Clavius ...
On Episode 148 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Dr. Pascal Lee about why C...
The force is strong with this JEDI
The force will be strong with this next-generation imager; JEDI will be a featured instrument on the...
Tom Hanks' 'The Moonwalkers' makes US premiere at ...
It is not unusual to see a Saturn V launch while viewing a film at Space Center Houston. Now, with "...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 Starlink satell...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for the 26th time this morning (Feb. 15), setting a new reuse reco...
Boeing Starliner astronauts on the ISS set the sto...
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore say they aren't stranded aboard the space station. T...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin laying off 1,000 employees...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is laying off about 1,000 employees, according to media reports. That's abou...
What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting...
Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hi...
Welcome to the moon! Firefly's Blue Ghost lander r...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped som...
Earth wouldn’t have ice caps without eroding rocks...
Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years ...
