Science
The best new science fiction books of January 2024...
From Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds to Tlotlo Tsamaase’s Womb City and Ali Millar’s Ava Anna ...
NASA and Russia will keep launching each other's a...
The International Space Station will continue to see launching crews mixed with American and Russian...
Probiotics help treat recurring urinary tract infe...
Taking a vaginal probiotic, either on its own or with an oral probiotic, for four months reduced the...
In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid...
NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is se...
Quadrantid meteor shower 2024: The year's 1st mete...
Up to 120 shooting stars per hour could be visible during a brief peak of the Quadrantid meteor show...
Artemis 2 moon astronaut says his 1st space launch...
Canadian Space Agency Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen has never been in space before. But he is ge...
Earth's intense gravity may rip space rocks apart,...
Earth and other terrestrial planets probably use their gravitational forces to tear apart asteroids ...
Total solar eclipse April 2024: 10 of the biggest ...
Over 31 million people in North America will experience a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Here...
AI learns to recognise objects with the efficiency...
Shortly after hatching, chicks quickly learn to recognise moving objects with only a few examples – ...
End of year, end of exhibit: Space shuttle Endeavo...
With the end of 2023 comes the end of an endeavor — or rather Endeavour — as the retired NASA space ...
Get ready to see a total solar eclipse in 2024 – h...
The moon will cover the sun on 8 April 2024 for people in parts of the US, Canada and Mexico, creati...
Sea of methane sealed beneath Arctic permafrost co...
A sea of migrating methane discovered below the permafrost in Svalbard may eventually escape its icy...
These eclipse-themed places will experience totali...
Here we've rounded up some of the best eclipse-themed places that lie on the path of totality for th...
Encryption upgrade in 2024 will keep data safe fro...
We probably don't need to worry about quantum computers being able to break encryption in 2024, but ...
SpaceX test fires giant Starship booster — and sp...
SpaceX closed out 2023 with a fiery double test of its next Starship megarocket booster and spacecra...
'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 8 review: Mars ...
Dev gets "Oceans Eleven"-shaped delusions of grandeur, while an old friend of Margo returns to deliv...
NASA's Curiosity rover films from dawn to dusk on ...
NASA 'sCuriosity Rover filmed footage from dawn to dusk, capturing half a day on Mars as it sat wait...
Japan's ispace shows off a tiny moon lander for it...
The Resilience lander for ispace's 2nd moon mission is under construction, as it aims to send a mini...
Zoom through a 'spectacular' chain of ancient unde...
A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape an o...
NASA can't wait for its OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft to ...
'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis will make a flyby like no other in recorded history in 2029 as it be...
NASA's Juno spacecraft will get its closest look y...
NASA's Juno spacecraft will come closer to Jupiter's moon Io on Dec. 30 than any spacecraft has in 2...
Chinese rocket booster falls from space, crashes n...
Rocket debris from a recent China satellite launch fell to ground near inhabited areas, where bystan...
SpaceX wows with a double header of final 2023 roc...
SpaceX ended 2023 with not 1 but 2 rocket launches. Within hours on Dec. 28, it sent a Falcon Heavy ...
Quantum batteries could charge faster by scramblin...
Batteries could charge up by relying on a quantum effect known as indefinite causal order, whereby t...
Headset delivers electric current to ease depressi...
A headset that can be worn at home relieves symptoms of depression to a similar degree as antidepres...
Tonga volcano eruption was fueled by 2 merging cha...
Researchers have mapped the magma plumbing system beneath Tonga's underwater volcano and discovered ...
Quantum state of matter made with 'dipolar' molecu...
A quantum state of matter comprising molecules with opposite charges at each end has been made for t...
12 times scientists penetrated the secrets of aste...
The OSIRIS-REx sampling mission, a planetary defense prototype named DART and a spacecraft's ambitio...
Aloe vera plants turned into energy-storing superc...
A battery-like device known as a supercapacitor can be created from different parts of aloe vera pla...
A guide to the solar system's planets in 2024
This guide to the planets in our solar system will show you what to look out for in the sky in 2024....
2024 could finally see greenhouse gas emissions st...
If governments step up support for renewable energy and other efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emiss...
CRISPR engineered viruses could render other virus...
A virus engineered using CRISPR technology spread its DNA to other viruses in mice, causing them to ...
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches mysterious X-3...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane to orbit tonight (Dec...
Japan's H3 rocket will launch a 2nd time in Februa...
Japan's space agency says its H3 rocket will attempt to fly again as soon as Feb. 14, 2024. That's n...
Unexpected cosmic clumping could disprove our best...
The new study of galaxies, centered around a value for cosmic lumpiness known as S8, could join the ...
NASA astronauts test SpaceX Starship elevator for ...
NASA astronauts practiced using a SpaceX Starship elevator to send cargo and other items into the sp...
SpaceX is launching Starlink satellites today and ...
SpaceX will launch 23 new Starlink satellites when its Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Cape Canavera...
