Science
Watch SpaceX launch Irish, South Korean satellites...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will send two satellites into space Dec. 1: Ireland's first satellite, and ...
Vaping vs edibles: How does the way we use cannabi...
Edibles, vapes and spliffs all contain the same psychoactive compounds but the effects they have on ...
Sci-fi classic 'The Abyss' washes into theaters an...
Director James Cameron's classic underwater sci-fi film "The Abyss" is finally coming to 4K UHD on h...
China's Chang'e 5 moon samples, beyond NASA's reac...
For the first time, NASA-funded researchers can apply for access to lunar samples collected by China...
Scientists are devising ways to gaze past Earth's ...
Radio signals in Earth's orbit can create noise in astronomy data. Scientists are planning a workaro...
How will we actually know when we pass 1.5°C of wa...
It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definiti...
World must prepare for frequent and severe drought...
With climate change driving more intense dry spells, the world must invest in early warning systems ...
US Space Force postpones launch of secretive X-37B...
The U.S. Space Force has announced a delay in the upcoming launch of its elusive X-37B space plane, ...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
A novelisation of Zack Snyder’s film Rebel Moon, a new Star Wars novel and the much-anticipated seco...
Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so eff...
Tests with an eel-inspired robot show that the unusual fish may swim most efficiently by reducing th...
See a forgotten meteor shower caused by a dead com...
The Andromedid meteor shower is normally a quiet affair, but very occasionally it puts on an intense...
Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings
Most marmosets have non-identical twins or triplets, which exchange blood cells while in the uterus ...
COP28: Energy transition may cut 60% of oil-produc...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
COP28: Energy transition may cut oil-producing sta...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with...
Like platypuses and some sharks, bottlenose dolphins have an electric sense which they may use to na...
Nuclear-powered Dragonfly mission to Saturn moon T...
"The Dragonfly team has successfully overcome a number of technical and programmatic challenges in t...
Here's what astronauts in orbit around Mars would ...
New images from NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter capture what the Red Planet would look like from the van...
For Henry Kissinger, NASA'S Apollo 11 lunar landin...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away Nov. 29, 2023. After the Apollo 11 moon l...
Watch a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch t...
A Russian cargo spacecraft will blast off from Kazakhstan on Dec. 1 for a flight to the Internationa...
Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short na...
While incubating their eggs, chinstrap penguins need to stay vigilant for predators – so they only s...
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step mol...
Researchers have worked out how a protein called photolyase repairs DNA using light, and their disco...
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shou...
An enormous planet has been spotted orbiting a small star, and it could not have formed under either...
300 gamma-ray-blasting neutron stars found in mass...
Astronomers have discovered around 300 new gamma-ray-blasting pulsars, including several "spider pul...
Meet 'Selam,' the curious double moon orbiting ast...
Asteroid Dinkinesh, target No. 1 on Lucy's journey, turned out to be not one, but two (technically t...
The Milky Way lights up the 'Valley of the moon' i...
The European Southern Observatory shared a mesmerizing new photo of the Milky Way shining above Vall...
Mary Cleave, space shuttle astronaut who led NASA'...
Mary Cleave, who launched twice on the space shuttle before becoming the first woman to head NASA's ...
Hubble Space Telescope is in safe mode — but scien...
The Hubble Space Telescope has entered an automatic safe mode due to gyroscope difficulties, but sci...
Powerful 'Cannibal' solar burst will hit Earth ton...
A 'Cannibal' plasma eruption from the sun will hit Earth on Dec. 1. Scientists predict strong geomag...
Asteroid Phaethon's mysterious tail may finally ha...
Spectral analysis of the mystery asteroid Phaethon reveals its composition at last.
Our solar system's planets aren't weird after all....
All solar system planets circle our sun with slightly tilted orbits — and a new study shows even dis...
Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El ...
El Niño is in full swing and will likely remain "strong" this winter, but its effect on weather patt...
Earth-like planets may form even in harsh environm...
The James Webb Space Telescope has found water and organic carbon molecules in the vicinity of a mas...
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones...
A 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy, has yielded the first archaeological evidence of cann...
