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The best Fourth of July and early Amazon Prime Day...
These are our picks of the best space tech deals you can get ahead of Fourth of July and Amazon Prim...
New interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling throug...
3I/ATLAS is the third-ever interstellar object discovered.
Earth is farthest from the sun today. So why is it...
Earth is at its farthest point from the sun on July 3. So why are temperatures so high across the U....
Nighttime light exposure linked to heart disease i...
Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep phys...
The foolproof way to win any lottery, according to...
How can you guarantee a huge payout from any lottery? Take a cue from combinatorics, and perhaps gat...
See Mercury at greatest elongation, its farthest f...
The rocky world will be visible for a brief window after sunset.
'52 Assignments: Night Photography': A Q&A with au...
"…are we potentially the last generation that will see the night's sky in its entirety?"
Hubble Telescope finds stellar nursery in Taurus M...
The space telescope spied three young stars in the nebula.
Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from al...
A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containe...
Emojis give your friends a better impression of yo...
Red heart or thumbs up? Sending emojis to close friends makes them see you as more attentive and lik...
Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they proces...
An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heate...
Fresh understanding of how mouths heal may lead to...
We have now learned why wounds in our mouth don't scar, which could lead to treatments that prevent ...
A newly forming ocean may split Africa apart, scie...
A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly spli...
The Australia-Tuvalu climate migration treaty is a...
Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea l...
Climate satellite MethaneSAT backed by Bezos and G...
MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to mon...
New Horizons images enable first test of interstel...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculat...
Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to...
A key milk protein for making cheese and yoghurt has been produced in bacteria for the first time, p...
An ancient Egyptian's complete genome has been rea...
The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient societ...
You’ve been sold a giant myth when it comes to imp...
Diet and exercise will only get you so far, but there is a magic bullet that could make us all live ...
The secret of why Mars grew cold and dry may be lo...
As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out an...
Exoplanets that cling too tightly to their stars t...
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar f...
Former astronaut Terry Virts talks about his Senat...
Space.com sat down recently with retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts to talk about space, politics an...
Interstellar visitor spotted hurtling through the ...
An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high spe...
Dust devils on Mars may spark lightning — possibly...
Our Red Planet explorers may encounter a peculiar threat.
SpaceX rocket sets reuse record on 500th Falcon 9 ...
SpaceX launch 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on the 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch in the...
Northern lights may be visible in these 13 U.S. st...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic st...
Stunning image of a supernova reveals a dead star ...
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exp...
Astronomers capture incredible 1st image of a dead...
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation sup...
Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favo...
Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the sp...
SpaceX launches advanced European weather satellit...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the MTG-S1 weather satellite for EUMETSAT today (July 1), then cam...
Breaking the laws of thermal radiation could make ...
It is possible to make a material absorb more radiation than it has to re-emit, violating the laws o...
James Webb Space Telescope uses cosmic archeology ...
Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that...
A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in o...
Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to tr...
An enormous 'X' and 'V' will grace the moon's surf...
The phenomenon is created by the shifting play of light and shadow over the lunar surface.
Where does time actually come from?
The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum...
Australia's first orbital rocket, Gilmour Space's ...
The Australian company Gilmour Space is back at the launch pad with its Eris-1 rocket, preparing for...
Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static elec...
You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now...
US set new record with 21 commercial launches in J...
American companies launched 21 commercial space missions in June 2025, which was a new record for a ...
A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some pe...
People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the con...
Astonishing 'halo' of high-energy particles around...
A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the w...
NASA's Curiosity rover takes a closer look at 'spi...
The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs f...
Shrinking Antarctic sea ice is warming the ocean f...
Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated o...
'This is the holy grail of theoretical physics.' I...
A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", t...
Protocells self-assembling on micrometeorites hint...
Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that...
The best new science fiction books of July 2025
From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - i...
'Like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice': How ...
"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected loca...
Polycystic ovary syndrome may be passed on via che...
Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epige...
Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medi...
AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful...
Astronomers discover a galaxy frozen in time for b...
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a ce...
What does it mean when an orca wants to share its ...
Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, w...
