Science
If we really want people living on the moon, we ne...
Scientists have started building a space medicine biobank as humans look to the moon and beyond.
Life after stellar death? How life could arise on ...
Stellar death need not be the end for orbiting planets, which could see their ice melt as they move ...
Iconic Crab Nebula shines in gorgeous James Webb S...
The famous Crab Nebula gets a closeup from the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA and Boeing will discuss Starliner's delayed I...
NASA will talk about the delayed return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner capsule during a press confer...
Ukraine is using AI to manage the removal of Russi...
There are so many Russian landmines across Ukraine that removing them could take 700 years. To prior...
Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from c...
Cashew nut shells are a source of low-emissions biofuel, which is being tested in several ships, but...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover enters new Red Plan...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been rerouted across a Red Planet dune field to reach the Marian ...
Time crystals may make quantum computers more reli...
Extremely cold atoms that perpetually move in repeating patterns could be a promising building block...
The unexpected behavior of pulsing stars could hel...
New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clu...
Join the FAA's virtual public meeting about SpaceX...
The FAA is holding a virtual public meeting this evening (June 17) about the potential environmental...
Shine on, Starliner! Aurora glows green as astrona...
Boeing Starliner has seen its one-week test mission in space double to about two weeks. That allowed...
NASA moon orbiter spots Chinese lander on lunar fa...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken its first look at China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft on the ...
Mathematicians find odd shapes that roll like a wh...
Not content with shapes in two or three dimensions, mathematicians like to explore objects in any nu...
Why humanity’s survival may depend on us becoming ...
Tribalism can be toxic, yet we need more of it if we are to meet today’s global challenges, argues o...
The universe’s biggest explosions made some of the...
In order to explain the presence of these heavier elements today, it’s necessary to find phenomena t...
Watch a humanoid robot driving a car extremely slo...
A robot named Musashi with a human-like skeleton and musculature can perform basic driving tasks – b...
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists aro...
Meteoroids are difficult objects for aerospace and geophysics researchers like us to study, because ...
Google's new quantum computer may help us understa...
By combining two approaches to quantum computing into one device, Google has been able to simulate t...
This long-studied star is actually a stellar duo: ...
A young star that astronomers have studied for decades has been found to be part of a duo, encircled...
Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing ...
A low-mass star races through the Milky Way at over a million miles per hour, a journey that began w...
At the heart of this distant galaxy lies not 1, bu...
The two black holes at the heart of the galaxy OJ 287 are true behemoths with masses of 18.35 billio...
Who is Dr. Kovich in 'Star Trek: Discovery'? The m...
With his trademark suit-and-tie an anomaly among the primary-colored "Star Trek: Discovery" uniforms...
10 top tips for planning your 2027 solar eclipse t...
From understanding the weather to seeing the Milky Way, here's how to plan a trip to see the total s...
Where is the center of the universe?
The universe is undeniably vast, and from our perspective, it may seem like Earth is in the middle o...
Could nearby stars have habitable exoplanets? NASA...
Astronomers are using the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study stars' radiation and establish the feas...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 115 —Our Frien...
On Episode 115 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Fli...
Space weather forecasting needs an upgrade to prot...
Cosmic rays from distant stars and galaxies and solar energetic particles from the Sun bombard the m...
How the world-famous Griffith Observatory became a...
An examination of the iconic Griffith Observatory, which has appeared in scores of films throughout ...
How are galaxies destroyed?
Eventually, all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, will meet their end. But how do galaxies die?...
Light-activated drugs could keep sleep-deprived mi...
A US military program led by DARPA is modifying the stimulant drug dextroamphetamine so it can be sw...
