Science
Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the I...
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy will conduct a spacewalk outside the ISS to...
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on...
SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), sending ...
Not-so-dark matter? Mysterious substance might lea...
A new study suggests dark matter could subtly tint or polarize light, leaving faint color clues that...
Watch a charred SpaceX Starship land in the ocean ...
New SpaceX footage from Starship Flight 11 shows the final moments of Oct. 13 mission, which ended w...
Why the next generation of mRNA vaccines is set to...
Scientists are designing mRNA vaccines to produce virus-like nanoparticles, which should lead to a m...
Ancient lead exposure may have influenced how our ...
Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient homi...
Why October is the perfect time to look for the An...
October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in th...
How scientists are using spinning dead stars to fi...
Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect p...
Watch the moment a brilliant green fireball meteor...
A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly ...
Asteroid discovered only 2 days ago will fly by Ea...
A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will safely fly by our planet Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the d...
'Predator: Badlands' is getting a prequel comic, b...
This official tie-in title was created in collaboration with the film's director, Dan Trachtenberg.
Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropod...
A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ lon...
The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to...
In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the uni...
CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere jumped by a recor...
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year...
A new private moon lander rises: Impulse Space thr...
Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just announced that...
Watch SpaceX launch 21 communications satellites f...
SpaceX plans to launch 21 satellites for an advanced new U.S. military constellation this evening (O...
A giant weak spot in Earth's magnetic field is get...
Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half...
The AI bubble is heading towards a burst but it wo...
Economists, bankers and even the boss of OpenAI are warning of a rapidly inflating AI bubble. If and...
Satellites watch as record-breaking ocean waves ca...
Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves ca...
Deep-space dishes dot the desert | Space photo of ...
Beneath the shadow of Chile's Licancabur volcano, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (...
Did a NASA exoplanet-hunting balloon really 'crash...
NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the miss...
Solar wind tears a chunk from Comet Lemmon's tail ...
See how the solar wind shredded Comet Lemmon's tail in an extraordinary view from Earth
Getting even bigger: What's next for SpaceX's Star...
SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket for the 11th time on Monday (Oct. 13), on a successful test ...
Best space strategy games, ranked
Conquer the cosmos and lead ships, fleets, and even entire civilizations to victory in the best spac...
Who were the first humans to reach the British Isl...
As ancient humans left Africa, they encountered many harsh environments including the Sahara and the...
NASA lays off 550 employees at Jet Propulsion Labo...
NASA has announced a new wave of layoffs at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as the agency undergoes a...
What is the weak nuclear force and why is it impor...
The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest...
Paralysed man can feel objects through another per...
Keith Thomas, a man in his 40s with no sensation or movement in his hands, is able to feel and move ...
Aurora alert! 4 coronal mass ejections are racing ...
Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of ...
Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the ...
The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have be...
We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s...
A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by ...
The terrifying Apex Alien in 'Invasion' Season 3 i...
An Apex Alien joins Mitsuki atop a hillside in "Invasion"
Autumn 2025 Skywatching sights: 8 targets to see i...
From glowing comets to ancient galaxies, autumn's night sky is filled with celestial treasures.
'Pregnancy test' for skeletons could help reveal a...
Progesterone, oestrogen and testosterone can be detected in skeletons over 1000 years old, offering ...
Connect the dots: A constellation challenge
This quiz will take you on a journey through the legends, locations, and logic behind the constellat...
Strange 'puffy' alien world breaks every rule for ...
If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strang...
From caves to the cosmos | Space photo of the day ...
ESA astronaut Marco Sieber journeyed deep underground in Italy's Apennines for CAVES training
Citizen scientists just discovered the most powerf...
Three new ORCS – "odd radio circles" – have been found associated with giant, active galaxies, givin...
Mother's voice seems to boost language development...
Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports...
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-ima...
Rocket Lab will launch a radar satellite for the Japanese Earth-observation company Synspective toda...
SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and...
SpaceX's Starship megarocket aced its test flight today (Oct. 13), the 11th overall for the program ...
'More joyous and sillier than 'Rick and Morty': 'S...
We talk to "Solar Opposites "executive producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel about the show's wild f...
The Taurid meteor shower 2025 has begun and could ...
The Taurid meteor streams have a reputation for generating impressive fireball meteors.
Is low Earth orbit getting too crowded? New study ...
Hundreds of satellites may soon be flying in orbital regions that are already too packed to allow sa...
How do asteroids spin in space? The answer could h...
From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid d...
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 clip sees...
The Vezda might be vanquished, but there are more cosmic threats for Captain Pike and the Enterprise...
A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light...
New research suggests that this mystery platinum signature underneath the Greenland ice sheet may ha...
NASA will say goodbye to the International Space S...
In 2030, the International Space Station will be deorbited: driven into a remote area of the Pacific...
Your diet is probably dangerously acidic but there...
Nutrition scientists have unlocked an entirely new way of thinking about why certain foods are good ...
Is the universe infinite, or does it have a limit?...
If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into, and what is it expanding from? Where's...
