Science
NASA rolls Artemis 2 mobile launch tower to pad fo...
The mobile launch platform that supports NASA's Space Launch System rocket was rolled to the pad for...
Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees...
An African bird called the greater honeyguide is said to lead honey badgers to beehives. Despite dec...
See the moon and Mars enjoy the sunset together to...
The moon will make a close approach to Mars in the evening on Friday, Aug. 18 as the two celestial b...
Making your phone screen blurry could stop people ...
Thanks to the way human eyes work, a system that makes your phone screen blurry can prevent people r...
Astronomers find first evidence of heavy black hol...
The way in which supermassive black holes grew to tremendous sizes in the early universe has been a ...
Lauren Beukes on why she tackled the multiverse in...
The award-winning author of The Shining Girls on how her 'magpie curiosity' about everything from ne...
Read an extract from Bridge by Lauren Beukes
This tantalising extract is taken from Bridge by Lauren Beukes, the latest pick for our New Scientis...
Neptune's clouds have vanished, and the sun may be...
Thanks to the sun's 11-year-long cycle, Neptune might be systematically purged of its clouds.
Maui satellite photo shows full scale of deadliest...
The Landsat 8 satellite captured the deadly flames that burned through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii...
Take an interstellar cruise into the cosmos in new...
An exclusive first peek at Boom! Studios' new sci-fi limited series, 'The Space Between.'
Satellites watch wildfires rage across Canadian no...
Satellite images reveal the scope of devastating wildfires in the Canadian northwest where an entire...
Russia's Luna-25 moon lander snaps 1st photo of lu...
Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission since 1976, has snapped its first detailed photo of the lunar s...
Astronomers have found a strange new type of extre...
A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar – a highly magnetic neutron star, w...
Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out C...
A series of catastrophic fires killed off many large mammals in southern California by 13,000 years ...
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 'Maisie's gala...
The universe's age when Maisie's galaxy was seen by the James Webb Space Telescope has been confirme...
Powerful helium star could finally reveal secrets ...
A newly discovered, highly magnetic and massive helium star could explain how magnetars, stellar cor...
All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be ...
Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface have disappeared, an...
Watch SpaceX launch 21 Starlink satellites early F...
SpaceX plans to launch 21 of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 18), and you can wa...
Astronaut-artist Karen Nyberg unveils quilt portra...
The 50th woman to fly into space, Karen Nyberg has paid tribute to the first woman and first America...
Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent ...
When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an extraordinary pace – but scie...
Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects li...
Fruit flies with access to a spinning carousel seem to ride on it for fun in a rare case of play-lik...
India's Chandrayaan-3 moon lander successfully sep...
India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander is a step closer to landing on the moon after separating Aug. 17 ...
Perseid meteor shower 2023 lights up the sky in th...
Gaze at some of our best 2023 Perseid meteor shower photo submissions from across the world.
Watch how 'Ahsoka' explores the bond between Jedi ...
A new 'Ahsoka' featurette goes behind the scenes to delve into the connection between Jedi masters a...
Driverless cars may struggle to spot children and ...
The accuracy of pedestrian-detecting AI systems may be biased against some groups of people, fuellin...
A 142-year-old astronomy building was serendipitou...
The foundations of Michigan State University's first astronomy building recently came to light, show...
Wildfires made worse by plants starting to grow ea...
Wildfires in the northern hemisphere burn more fiercely when plants start growing earlier in the yea...
Negative emotions really do make events seem to la...
When people are shown pictures evoking negative emotions, they remember time as passing more slowly,...
How did supermassive black holes get so big so fas...
Finding supermassive black holes with masses billions of times greater than the sun under a billion ...
Flying bird robot can soar so well it uses almost ...
An autonomous flying robot can float in place like a bird, using its throttle just 0.25 per cent of ...
Rare iron meteorite could help reveal secrets of e...
Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the ...
SpaceX's Crew-7 mission will launch international ...
The astronauts on SpaceX's Crew-7 mission emphasized how well the International Space Station partne...
Morning-after pill is more effective when taken wi...
The emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel is much more effective at preventing pregnancy if the ant...
Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man still func...
It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a g...
Deadly wildfires in Hawaii seen from International...
Not only is the devastation being thoroughly documented around the world, but it's also being record...
Gene-edited yeasts transform bread and give rice w...
We can change the flavour and texture of foods like bread and rice wine by tweaking the genomes of t...
The US Air Force challenged teams to hack into a s...
The U.S. Air Force has announced the winners of its first-of-its-kind satellite hacking competition,...
NASA's New Horizons will investigate Uranus from t...
An observing campaign involving New Horizons, the Hubble Space Telescope and perhaps even you is des...
SpaceX submits Starship mishap report to the FAA
SpaceX has submitted to the FAA its final report about the debut launch of its Starship vehicle, whi...
Inhalable mRNAs will boost vaccines and therapies ...
Delivering mRNAs to the cells lining the nose and lungs will make vaccines more effective and may al...
