Science
‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots hous...
AI allows robots to listen to verbal instructions while learning to correctly perform household task...
How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secr...
Records of total solar eclipses go back thousands of years, and in all that time they have allowed s...
James Webb Space Telescope joins the hunt for newb...
The James Webb Space Telescope has joined the hunt for infant exoplanets, spotting a newly forming w...
Why vigorous exercise could inadvertently lead to ...
Intense exercise may make the body compensate for energy used during this vigorous activity by reduc...
The best new science fiction books of April 2024
There’s an abundance of exciting new science fiction out in April, by writers including The Three-Bo...
The 2024 total solar eclipse is 1 week away. Here'...
With just one week until a total solar eclipse is visible across North America here's what you need ...
AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their oppone...
When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likel...
Pluto TV will rally to make Pluto a planet again o...
Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke o...
Hubble Space Telescope finds bucket of cosmic East...
Observations for the ULLYSES program, the Hubble Telescope's largest operation yet, are now complete...
'Everything is interrelated.' For the Navajo Natio...
While many Americans are deciding where to go and how to experience the total solar eclipse on April...
NASA's mini moon rovers go for a test drive ahead ...
NASA's CADRE mini rovers have been test driven across the agency's "Mars Yard" and subjected to vari...
Life on Enceladus? Europe eyes astrobiology missio...
The future European Space Agency mission could include an orbiting spacecraft as well as a lander, b...
We asked over 50 women space leaders for words of ...
Current leaders across the space industry share wisdom and advice as we reflect on the achievements ...
Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us abou...
Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 104 — The Arte...
On Episode 104 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with National Space Society chapter leader ...
April 8 total solar eclipse: Why this eclipse repe...
The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited Nort...
Spaceflight tripleheader! SpaceX planning 3 launch...
SpaceX aims to launch three Falcon 9 rockets today (March 30) from both coasts in a roughly five-hou...
Why are some supermassive black hole jets so short...
New observations provide an intriguing window into what happens when a slumbering black hole awakens...
1st Boeing Starliner astronauts are ready to launc...
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been training on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft ...
Powerful X-class solar flare slams Earth, triggeri...
On March 28, Earth was hit by an X-class solar flare that was strong enough to ionize part of the pl...
Why low-level clouds vanish during a solar eclipse...
Cumulus clouds rapidly dissipate as the land surface cools. This isn't just good news for eclipse ch...
Physicists have worked out how to melt any materia...
A new equation shows a surprisingly simple relationship between pressure and the temperature needed ...
Varda Space made an HIV drug in Earth orbit. Here'...
Varda Space has written up the results of its groundbreaking W-1 mission, which successfully crystal...
Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic ...
Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric warming event caused the Arctic's polar vortex to reverse i...
Solar spacecraft 'SOHO' discovers its 5,000th come...
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory just hit a milestone with its 5,000th comet detection.
Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in th...
A global analysis of heatwaves over a span of 40 years shows that they are getting more frequent, mo...
Lego Star Wars Executor Super Star Destroyer revie...
This impressive Lego Star Wars ship packs in plenty of detail without breaking the bank.
Gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope image captures...
A small galaxy is bursting with star formation in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Tel...
Unprecedented GPS jamming attack affects 1600 airc...
A 63-hour-long marathon of GPS jamming attacks disrupted global satellite navigation systems for hun...
Most quasars are a ferocious force of nature, but ...
A quasar over three billion light-years away was found to be rather gentle on its host galaxy, allow...
How to earn a 'black belt' in solar eclipse chasin...
We explore how eclipses repeat and what it takes to earn a 'black belt' in eclipse chasing, accordin...
Tooth loss linked to early signs of Alzheimer’s di...
A brain region critical for memory is smaller in older adults with fewer than 10 teeth than in those...
NASA's 1st female chief engineer at Kennedy Space ...
For Women's History Month, NASA's Teresa Kinney shared what she's learned in 40 years of working in ...
Europe's upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed ma...
The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover now has a detailed map with which to help f...
DNA sequencing may give hope to critically ill adu...
Genome analysis as a way of helping people with baffling medical conditions has so far mainly been s...
NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down ...
Scientists shared preliminary results from Lucy's encounter with Dinkinesh and Selam late last year....
The ambitious plans to study the sun during April'...
Solar scientists have been preparing for years for a 4-minute window, during the total solar eclipse...
Life as we know it could exist on Venus, new exper...
Some of the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions, according to a...
Final launch of Delta IV Heavy rocket scrubbed lat...
ULA scrubbed the last planned liftoff of its Delta Heavy IV rocket today (March 28) late in the coun...
