Science
The Milky Way's last major act of galactic canniba...
Gaia discovers the Milky Way's last major act of galactic cannibalism was surprisingly recent, as th...
Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab e...
When bacteria were put in alternating environments, some became better at evolving to cope with the ...
'Supercharged rhino' black holes may have formed a...
Tiny 'supercharged' black holes born just after the Big Bang may have been brief companions to primo...
Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3...
The protective bubble around the sun retreated dramatically after colliding with a freezing interste...
The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an in...
The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally u...
'Vampire stars' explode after eating too much — AI...
Type Ia supernovas erupt when white dwarf "dead stars" vampirically feast on a companion star. Resea...
Sandworms rise from the sands of Arrakis in exclus...
An exclusive look at "Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet," which comes out on July 16.
What is the 3-body problem, and is it really unsol...
The three-body problem is a physics conundrum that has boggled scientists since Isaac Newton's day. ...
Astronauts test SpaceX Starship hardware and space...
Two astronauts performed tests inside full-scale mock ups of SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System ...
'Stellar Dreams' project gifting 100 telescopes to...
An interview with Raven Baxter and NASA's Ronald Gamble about the Stellar Dreams Project, which will...
At long last: Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket set to ...
Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is set to launch for the first time on July 9 after a series...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 114 —Starliner...
On Episode 114 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk about the launches of Boeing's Starliner an...
SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day ...
During a successful fourth flight test of Starship this week, SpaceX stated another big goal: Buildi...
Arrokoth the 'space snowman' probably tastes like ...
Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth, the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft, likely tastes sweet ...
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who captured 'Eart...
Bill Anders, who as an Apollo 8 astronaut was one of the first people to fly to the moon in 1968, wa...
NASA's wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sampl...
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has faced quite a few hurdles, and the agency has selected ten stu...
Virgin Galactic eyes June 8 for final commercial s...
Virgin Galactic aims to launch its seventh commercial spaceflight mission on June 8 during the final...
SpaceX launching 22 Starlink satellites from Flori...
SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Co...
Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species f...
A kneecap and two teeth found in Germany have been identified as belonging to a new species of ape f...
Jupiter's raging gas cyclones may actually mirror ...
Jupiter and Earth's oceans have more in common than you might think.
Weird magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune may co...
An exotic molecule stabilized by intense pressure found in the icy depths of Neptune and Uranus coul...
Starliner and Starship launches propel space indus...
SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on the same day that Boeing’s Starliner craft made ...
What is a heat dome and are they getting worse wit...
Mexico and the southern US have seen extreme temperatures due to a heat dome, a weather phenomenon t...
US military test launches 2 unarmed intercontinent...
The United States Air Force and U.S. Space Force conducted two routine test launches of unarmed inte...
Doctor Who 'Dot and Bubble': Why are space slugs e...
In the fifth episode of "Doctor Who," called"'Dot and Bubble," a city has been invaded by giant, hum...
Writers accept lower pay when they use AI to help ...
When writers are allowed to get help from ChatGPT, they accept lower pay, fuelling fears that AI wil...
South Korea creates new KASA space agency, sets si...
South Korea has announced the creation of a new space agency and is aiming to land its own spacecraf...
Physicists want to drill a 5-kilometre-deep hole o...
Going deep into lunar rock could give us an opportunity to see if protons can decay into something e...
Scientists find slowest spinning 'radio neutron st...
Taking almost a full hour to rotate rather than fractions of a second, ASKAP J1935+2148 is the slowe...
