Science
Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for...
Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel...
4 epic myths hiding in the May sky — and how to fi...
Discover the tales behind four famous spring constellations.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 209 — Astronau...
On Episode 209 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Garrett Reisman and Steve L...
NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are very low on pow...
Voyager, the iconic twin spacecraft that NASA launched in 1977, are still flying in interstellar spa...
NASA's Artemis 2 commander and astrophotographer t...
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy partnered with Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman to create stunning...
A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the...
If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers ...
Pentagon unveils trove of declassfied 'UFO' videos...
The Pentagon released a new tranche of UFO files on Friday (May 8). Among the documents are nearly 3...
Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be c...
Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused ...
US government releases huge batch of UFO files
The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, som...
How you'd really die in space: What sci-fi gets ri...
What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you.
This is your best chance to spot the Milky Way's c...
See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky
Doubling their genomes may have helped plants surv...
Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extr...
Blue Origin tests 1st moon lander ahead of lunar l...
Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NA...
Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone ...
A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kil...
The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space phot...
NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to...
There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of se...
Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of...
Learn the night sky without an app: May's easiest ...
Forget apps — May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to lea...
Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding...
It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.
Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need ...
How important is thinking about your breath for calming yourself down? We now know that slow breathi...
SpaceX just fired up its 33-engine Starship 'V3' S...
SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the ve...
Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious s...
An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders...
NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far...
The Artemis 2 astronauts saw several impact flashes on the moon during their epic April 6 flyby, obs...
The mathematician who doesn’t exist
A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a ...
A bizarre 'decapitated' asteroid likely made the m...
An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemi...
'Saros' nails the cosmic horror and bullet-hell ac...
PlayStation and Housemarque's follow-up to Returnal packs a punch and makes great use of PS5's uniqu...
Where does Earth's mysterious 'ring current' come ...
NASA, working with the Space Force, plans to launch a space weather mission later this month to stud...
Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style p...
The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cr...
PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancie...
Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which ...
'Star Wars: Galactic Racer': Release date, trailer...
Now this is podracing... and speeder racing... and speeder bike racing...
Moon joy at Jupiter | Space photo of the day for M...
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter's moon Thebe.
Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to...
A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are d...
Here's what 6 years of driving on Mars did to the ...
A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Ma...
How do the biggest black holes in the universe for...
Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which...
Artemis 2 moon launch brought nearly 350,000 peopl...
About 346,000 U.S. visitors — roughly the equivalent of the population of Honolulu, Hawaii — came to...
The best new popular science books of May 2026
A guide to walking, a look at the world’s Google searches and a deep dive into the secrets of our DN...
Should Saturn's huge moon Titan be humanity's next...
Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Tita...
Pressure from individual particles measured for th...
A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures an...
How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling ...
By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that...
Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we kn...
Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally b...
Europe's 1st reusable spacecraft 'Space Rider' cle...
Space Rider, a novel spacecraft concept from the European Space Agency, is passing key milestones in...
Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools o...
An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools ou...
'Whatever Russia is testing, it's sophisticated': ...
Two Russian satellites got within 10 feet (3 meters) of each other recently, demonstrating a sophist...
3 puzzles of our universe could be solved with thi...
A new recipe of dark matter that interacts with itself could be the solution to three separate and v...
Red-light therapy does have health benefits but no...
Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pai...
Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point i...
At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash wide...
'Thor' hammered down 15 years ago, and it's still ...
In 2011, Thor proved himself more than worthy in his roaring MCU debut. Since then, the thunder has ...
Sci-fi RPG 'Exodus''s combat looks and feels like ...
Jun Aslan and Phaedra share a quiet chat in Archetype Entertainment's latest Community Update.
