Science
Space Force launching lasers in 2025 to help pinpo...
The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth’s center using lasers on GPS sate...
'Fly Me to the Moon' director on faking the real a...
For his new movie "Fly Me to the Moon," director Greg Berlanti faked the historic first moon landing...
Your pupils change size as you breathe
Our pupils shrink and expand as we breathe in and out, but whether this affects vision is unclear
'The last 12 months have broken records like never...
Every month has broken the temperature record of the previous for the past 12 months, and the signs ...
Watch the moon cover up the blue giant star Spica ...
On Saturday, July 13, the moon will pass in front of bright blue star Spica in the night sky. The st...
Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to diff...
Highland and lowland populations in Papua New Guinea have different gene variants derived from Denis...
'Dark comets' may have given Earth its water long ...
'Dark comets,' which have no visible tail, could also explain the strange behavior of the interstell...
Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots ou...
Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basis for robots, but no...
Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earli...
All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor – and now it seem...
Astronomers could use a synthetic cosmos to unrave...
A simulated universe created by a supercomputer should help astronomers better analyze dark matter a...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket suffers anomaly during Star...
The upper-stage engine of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket did not perform as planned during a launch of the...
Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-...
When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essentially a large diaper be...
Watch private Cygnus cargo spacecraft leave the IS...
Northrop Grumman's robotic Cygnus spacecraft will leave the International Space Station on Friday mo...
You can turn any random sequence of events into a ...
A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random observations into a clock – and then...
How, when and where to see 2024's second 'Manhatta...
New Yorkers can view 2024's third and fourth "Manhattanhenge" moments at sunset on two nights this w...
'A Quiet Place's' alien monsters explained
If you've just watched 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and have been wondering about the nature of the alie...
Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass a...
Researchers have reshaped single electrons into spiralling matter waves with distinct handedness tha...
Huge earthquake 2,500 years ago rerouted the Gange...
A new study suggests an earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.5 or 8 shook the Indian subcontinent 2,5...
'Drawn to our planet:' How spaceflight changed Spa...
Space.com caught up with Inspiration4 crewmember Chris Sembroski to discuss the landmark 2021 SpaceX...
Cosmic crime scene reveals ancient supernova after...
A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars.
Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadia...
Thick sea ice is flowing into the Northwest Passage, complicating predictions that melting ice due t...
Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in free...
A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which might bring us clo...
Perseid meteor shower returns to our skies this mo...
2024 will be a very good year to watch for the Perseids, because bright moonlight will not interfere...
1st images from European climate satellite reveal ...
The European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite sent back its first images; they should be able to h...
