Science
Wildfires burned a staggering 30% of Brazil's Pant...
High-quality satellite images show that the 2020 wildfires burned at least 2.2 million more acres (8...
UK’s global AI summit must provide solutions rathe...
Efforts to regulate artificial intelligence are gathering steam across the world, but some key ethic...
Queen guitar legend Brian May helps analyze NASA's...
Music legend Brian May has spoken about his role in the historic NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, which in S...
SpaceX aims to launch 144 missions next year
SpaceX hopes to launch 100 missions this year and ramp its cadence up to 144 flights in 2024, a comp...
NBC's 'Quantum Leap' hops back in time to investig...
A review of this week's 'Quantum Leap' episode, 'Closure Encounters,' which takes Ben Song back to 1...
India wants to land astronauts on the moon in 2040...
India plans to land astronauts on the moon by 2040 and build a space station by 2035, officials anno...
Space history and future leap off the screen at NA...
Guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center can now see a space shuttle launch, a SpaceX Starship land on ...
Canada to launch new satellites to monitor climate...
The Canadian government promises it will get new satellites into space soon to extend its famous Rad...
Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert S...
It's hard to let go of the idea that free will exists, but neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says that ...
'Astronaut archaeology' could improve space statio...
New mysteries aboard the International Space Station came to light during a space archaeology projec...
Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it r...
Tall buildings made from electrically conductive materials can send lightning bolts up into the heav...
How AI-powered lasers could help with space debris...
A network of space-based lasers could help nudge debris away from collision courses with the Interna...
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io looks stunning in new J...
NASA's Juno spacecraft photographed Jupiter's moon Io during an Oct. 15 flyby, showing its tortured,...
New 'galactic atlas' offers stunning details of 40...
The new Siena Galaxy Atlas is an information gold mine for astronomers and a free gallery of galaxy ...
Hubble Telescope captures the bright core of a loo...
An intermediate spiral galaxy, called IC 5332, was photographed face-on by the Hubble Space Telescop...
Is England doing enough to stop covid-19 spreading...
New figures confirm toll of the coronavirus on hospital patients during UK’s second wave, but it’s u...
A massive 'zombie' star is rampaging away from its...
A long-dead white dwarf star is running away from Hyades star cluster — and it could help astronomer...
Energy-guzzling data centres could work just as we...
Data centres consume a huge amount of energy, but researchers have found a simple fix - let the serv...
Bird flu now sweeping the world evolved in Europe ...
For about 25 years, bird flu viruses typically originated in Asia – but the virus that began spreadi...
Tiniest particle accelerator is so small it could ...
A particle accelerator that measures just 0.2 mm in length uses laser light to accelerate electrons ...
Welding issues stall Artemis 2 moon rocket's assem...
Welding issues are holding up a part of the Artemis 2 moon rocket's core stage assembly, a report su...
Edible and delicious Chinese mitten crabs are inva...
Numbers of invasive Chinese mitten crabs are believed to be growing in the UK, causing damage to riv...
'For All Mankind' Season 4 explores an asteroid an...
'For All Mankind’s' upcoming fourth season just debuted at NYCC 2023, and series fans should expect ...
How to see the Orionid meteor shower peak this wee...
The Orionids are one of the most reliably active annual meteor showers, and with clear skies, you sh...
We may finally know how cognitive reserve protects...
Why does mental effort lead to a more resilient brain that can withstand dementia and decline? We ar...
Working with robots can make humans put in less ef...
Robots that do their job reliably can cause humans who work alongside them to be less diligent becau...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe smashes record for faste...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has reached a record-breaking speed as it gets a gravitational assist from...
NASA astronaut snaps photo of solar eclipse from t...
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli snapped a photo of the Oct. 14 solar eclipse from the International S...
Scientists prefer feedback from ChatGPT to judgeme...
Scientific research must be reviewed by other scientists before it is published, but some researcher...
Dwarf planet Ceres could be a great place to hunt ...
Asteroid impacts on dwarf planet Ceres influenced the presence of organic aliphatic molecules, accor...
Galactic archeology reveals Milky Way's neighbor A...
A new chemical analysis of stars in Andromeda has revealed the galaxy next door had a more chaotic u...
Mega penguins: These are the largest penguins to h...
No penguin alive today can compare with some of the extinct giants that once roamed the planet, incl...
Hitting the snooze button on your alarm doesn't ma...
Snoozing your alarm doesn't make you sleepier, moodier or less cognitively sharp during the day than...
City-size comet regrows 'horns' after massive volc...
The cryovolcanic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, which will make its closest approach to Earth next year, has...
Satellite sees annular solar eclipse from 1 millio...
A NASA camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR satellite captured an amazing view of last weekend's annular sola...
Pepper X: The world has a new hottest chilli
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units
Jupiter-like exoplanets reveal our solar system ma...
A new analysis shows Jupiter-like planets likely exist around young, moving stars — suggesting our s...
Top tips for astrophotography composition 2023
Improve your composing in astrophotographs, from camera choice and framing to planning, compositiona...
A simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy ...
Blinking streetlights could protect astronomy from the damaging effects of light pollution.
Why the Gaza water crisis is decades in the making...
The UN says approximately 2 million people in Gaza may soon run out of water because Israel has shut...
Mars was shaken by its strongest marsquake ever in...
Scientists have traced the biggest marsquake detected by Insight in May 2022 to tectonic forces with...
