Science
Watch the 'Christmas Tree Cluster' twinkle in X-ra...
The twinkling lights of the Christmas Tree Cluster tell us about the science going on there.
Can stars form around black holes?
Black holes create some of the most extreme environments in the cosmos — can stars form in such cond...
Girls’ brains aged unusually rapidly during the co...
Adolescents’ brains underwent accelerated ageing during the covid-19 pandemic, and the effect was mo...
Binoculars Christmas gift guide 2023
If you’re looking for the best binoculars to give as a last-minute gift this holiday season we've ro...
Winter solstice 2023 is here, bringing the longest...
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere will officially arrive tonight with the rays of the sun shining di...
Quantum physicists just got more certain about qua...
An extension of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which places limits on how precisely you can mea...
Virgin Galactic to launch 6th commercial spaceflig...
Virgin Galactic plans to launch its sixth operational spaceflight on Jan. 26, 2024 with four passeng...
SpaceX fires up giant Starship rocket ahead of 3rd...
SpaceX conducted a static fire test today (Dec. 20) with Ship 28, a prototype that's being readied t...
Finding life on Saturn's moon Enceladus might be e...
Scientists know that the vital ingredients needed for life lurk in oceans beneath the icy shell of S...
Artemis program will land international astronaut ...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pledged today (Dec. 20) that NASA's Artemis program will send a no...
Everything we know about the Alien TV series: Rele...
The first-ever TV show in the Alien universe is in development for FX on Hulu. Here's everything we ...
The science of why spending time in nature is just...
Getting outside to garden or walk in a park is good for your body – it’s exercise and you can get so...
Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being p...
Two relatively recent dietary trends – veganism and concerns about highly processed foods – may be i...
In the quest to find alien life, scientists are se...
Jupiter played a key role in life developing on Earth, so to boost the search for life outside the s...
Mars Express orbiter offers evidence of ancient mi...
The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has imaged the vast lava plains of Elysium Planitia...
Artemis 2 moon astronauts discuss 21st-century 'mo...
New details about the Artemis 2 astronauts' White House meetings last week were released Dec. 19, on...
'Kerbal Space Program 2' update delivers new Explo...
New trailer and details launch for 'Kerbal Space Program 2's' latest Early Access update, "For Scien...
The development of embryos may be less shaped by g...
The chemical reactions in cells appear to shape an embryo's development, possibly overriding the eff...
Telescopes Christmas gift guide 2023: Best for all...
Searching for the best telescope to gift to the astronomer in your life this holiday season? Whether...
AI discovers new class of antibiotics to kill drug...
Artificial intelligence helped screen millions of chemical compounds to find a class of antibiotics ...
Commercial Chinese rocket launches small returnabl...
The Chinese company iSpace's sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch C...
Microbes in Atacama desert's lost lagoons may mirr...
A jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama des...
VP Kamala Harris lead National Space Council meeti...
Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her third National Space Council meeting today (Dec. ...
Famous quantum experiment could be shrunk to the s...
A single, extremely cold atom could play the role of two slits in the classic double-slit experiment...
What's it like to buzz an Artemis SLS moon rocket ...
When Artemis 1's moon rocket arrived on the launch pad in 2022, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman spent mo...
Drones accessories Christmas gift guide
Enhance your drone flying experience with our drone accessory holiday gift guide.
The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm...
New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton...
Firefly Aerospace launching 4th-ever mission today...
Firefly Aerospace plans to launch a mission called 'Fly the Lightning' today (Dec. 19), and you can ...
Strange 'slide whistle' fast radio burst picked up...
The fascinating patterns of 35 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) reveal new properties of these mys...
Watch Chinese astronauts get haircuts aboard Tiang...
Shenzhou 17 commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helpe...
How the runaway greenhouse gas effect can destroy ...
Scientists watched as a simulated planet was driven from a habitable Earth-like heaven to an inhospi...
NASA laser-beams adorable cat video to Earth from ...
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment streamed a high-definition video of Taters the c...
Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA's 1st successful two-way laser...
NASA has completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system, marking a significant a...
Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy's 'forbidden' l...
The "forbidden" light of the spiral galaxy MCG-01-24-014 is captured in a new image from the Hubble ...
Snowflakes fall to the ground according to a unive...
After analysing the way half a million snowflakes fell during mountain storms in Utah, researchers f...
Everything we know about 'Alien: Romulus'
Xenomorphs are invading the big screen once again with a movie from 'Evil Dead' helmer Fede Álvarez....
Elon Musk spent 2023 shaping Twitter – sorry, X – ...
After taking control of Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk hired a new CEO to replace himself, all while con...
James Webb Space Telescope may have found the olde...
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of the universe's oldest black holes is giving astronomer...
This alien planetary system has a Jupiter world 99...
Astronomers found two planetary systems centered around solar analogs containing mini-Neptune planet...
