Science
DARPA-funded 'Inchworm' robots could help us build...
A maneuverable robot from Japan-based startup GITAI has made the list of technologies chosen for a l...
Interstellar astronauts would face years-long comm...
Due to the mind-blowing distances and speeds required, interstellar travel remains a major spaceflig...
Astronaut Mike Massimino shares advice from NASA c...
Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares lessons learned during his career and how they can be ap...
'The Star Wars Holiday Special' was a disaster. Th...
"The Star Wars Holiday Special" scores a new tell-all book and making-of documentary about what is w...
2023 saw thrilling space missions and new cosmic m...
The past year gave us thrilling missions to Jupiter and the moon, stunning images that captured the ...
AI can tell which chateau Bordeaux wines come from...
A machine-learning algorithm was able to tell which estate 80 Bordeaux red wines came from with 100 ...
Shipwrecks are havens for wildlife in areas threat...
In areas of the sea affected by bottom trawling, marine life is more abundant in and around shipwrec...
Pluto's 'almost twin' dwarf planet Eris is surpris...
Pluto's 'almost twin' dwarf planet Eris has a rocky core blanketed by an icy shell, which appears to...
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels hit ano...
Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget repo...
Stratolaunch's huge Roc plane flies with fueled-up...
Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane conducted its first-ever captive-carry flight with a fueled Talon-...
How Perseverance rover captured its youngest sampl...
A new NASA video explains how the Perseverance Rover may have collected its youngest rock sample yet...
X-ray telescope catches 'spider pulsars' devouring...
NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope has spotted a "clutter" of rapidly spinning neutron stars calle...
SpaceX buys parachute manufacturer Pioneer Aerospa...
SpaceX has acquired Pioneer Aerospace, a company that provided components for Dragon spacecraft para...
James Webb Space Telescope gazes into 'The Brick,'...
A dark nebula, also known as "The Brick," was imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Historic magnetic storms help scientists learn wha...
Magnetic storms can create amazing auroras, but they also have the capacity to impact our power grid...
The Predator returns in Marvel Comics' 'The Last H...
The galaxy's most notorious alien bounty hunter returns in Marvel Comics' "Predator: The Last Hunt #...
Pregnant megamouth shark washed up on beach is fir...
A female megamouth shark was found in the Philippines with one pup alongside her and six fetuses ins...
Vera C. Rubin Observatory will track orphan stars ...
The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will help astronomers track stars ripped from their galaxies,...
Brain implant could ease the effects of a traumati...
A device that was implanted into the brains of people with traumatic brain injuries substantially im...
Mighty morphin' Centaur rings — a distant icy obje...
What is causing the structure of the dust to evolve, and where exactly the dust comes from, is still...
The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact ...
Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physi...
China’s first underwater data centre is being inst...
To hold and cool computer servers, China has installed a 1300-tonne watertight cabin on the shallow ...
The elusive origins of long gamma-ray bursts may f...
New research helps resolve the mystery surrounding strange long gamma-ray bursts, suggesting these b...
Space mysteries: Why are there no gas moons?
In our solar system we have rocky moons, ocean moons and frozen-ice moons, but there are no gas moon...
NASA to train Indian astronauts for a week-long tr...
NASA will train two Indian astronauts, one of whom will fly to the ISS late next year, a space agenc...
Strange 'blob' circling Milky Way's central black ...
Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way's central black...
Rare gene variants can change your height by up to...
Gene variants that have an unusally large effect on some people's heights have been discovered by an...
IBM’s 'Condor' quantum computer has more than 1000...
IBM has revealed two quantum computers. One is the second largest ever made and the other produces f...
Near-Earth asteroids: Hunting and tracking upcomin...
Here we explore whether there are any upcoming asteroid encounters and how NASA and other space agen...
Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without...
Vaccinations could be made less painful by treating skin with a vaccine-laden liquid and using ultra...
Cosmonauts dock Russian Progress cargo ship to ISS...
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station took manual control of an incoming Progress 86...
A 'runaway star' could save Earth from extinction ...
Earth will become too hot to handle in a billion years. There's a (very) remote chance a passing sta...
China's Landspace gears up for 3rd launch of its m...
The Zhuque-2 was the first methane-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit, and the Chinese private space...
From Earth orbit to the moon: Europe's I-Hab conti...
A legacy of European-built and operated space modules, which began in Earth orbit and is now heading...
1st launch of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket finally has...
After a 4-year delay, the new heavy-lift rocket for Europe is almost ready for space. Ariane 6 shoul...
Axiom Space's 3rd private mission will conduct pio...
Set to launch to the ISS in Jan. 2024, the commercial mission Axiom-3 will continue to push the fron...
SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites from F...
SpaceX launched another 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Saturday night (Dec. 2).
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 89 — Who’s in ...
On Episode 89 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss the challenges of regulating spaceflight....
Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA w...
Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of the least explored regions of...
The Peregrine Lunar Lander is set to launch on Dec...
There will be 20 total payloads being brought to the moon, five of which are NASA's.
