Science
Scientists create 'laundry gun' for astronauts to ...
A pen-sized apparatus called a "laundry gun" could sterilize astronauts' clothes in space.
'The Mandalorian and Grogu' finally blasts onto Di...
Will this underwhelming spinoff of "The Mandalorian" find new life in the streaming world?
Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously...
A jet erupting from a distant supermassive black hole-powered blazar is being gravitationally lensed...
A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month —...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crater gouged out on the moon by a SpaceX rocket...
Mysterious Russian 'space activity' causes US Air ...
A mysterious incident over the South Pacific forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around on Aug....
13 sci-fi books that inspired our favorite shows a...
These are the books that inspired our favorite science fiction worlds on the big and small screens, ...
My 5 favorite sights to see in the night sky with ...
Here are our top picks on what to look for when using binoculars to explore the night sky.
On this day in space! Aug. 19, 1997: 1st Filipino ...
On Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines launched its own satellite for the first time.
I sailed to Greenland for a total solar eclipse — ...
I understood the science and had seen thousands of eclipse photographs, but nothing prepared me for ...
In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a bod...
The 5,300-year-old man found in an Alpine glacier in 1991 carried a copper axe traced to Tuscany, 61...
Touchdown! Private Chinese rocket aces landing on ...
The Beijing-based company LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), notching a hu...
Forget 'Halo' — the latest 'Futurama' episode has ...
"A ring-shaped world shaped like a ring! I shall call it Wheel World."
NASA astronaut and 1st female French spacewalker r...
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and first female French spacewalker Sophie Adenot removed a failed antenna...
Starship lives! SpaceX craft arrives at Christmas ...
After Starship's test launch and splashdown last month, SpaceX recovery teams have successfully tugg...
Watch SpaceX launch its 100th mission of the year ...
SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year tonight (Aug. 18), and you can watch the action liv...
Hydrogen-powered 'rocket car' tops 400 mph in reco...
The JCB Hydromax vehicle averaged more than 400 mph during two runs in Utah last week, becoming the ...
Hubble, James Webb team up to capture the 'Black E...
The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in a gorgeous new composite image from the Hubble and James Webb ...
On this day in space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total solar e...
On this day in space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total solar eclipse leads to discovery of helium
A beginner’s guide to observing the night sky with...
A telescope can help you explore the night sky, but only if you know how to use it.
It's harder to poop in space. Scientists may final...
Spaceflight can do strange things to the human body — including making it harder for astronauts to p...
See gorgeous views of the Aug. 12 total solar ecli...
Orbiting spacecraft captured incredible views of the moon's shadow darkening Earth during the Aug. 1...
Watch European astronaut make history during space...
On Aug. 18, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will become the first French woman ever to...
How an ancient collision with another galaxy trans...
The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover.
China bounces back from Long March rocket explosio...
China's space program has returned to flight after an Aug. 10 Long March 7A rocket explosion, launch...
The best Ruko drone to date is half-price at Amazo...
Looking to take to the skies? This beginner-friendly Ruko F11 PRO 2 is a mind-blowing $280 off, but ...
Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's ...
A composite image of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak four-meter telescope and MO...
The 1st 'Star Wars: Ahsoka' season 2 trailer final...
Our first look at 'Star Wars: Ahsoka' season 2 promises huge space battles, Clone Wars flashbacks, a...
Scientists find 3 supermassive black holes on the ...
A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive...
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Di...
On this day in space, Aug. 17, 1877: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars's moon Phobos.
Wildfire smoke blankets volcanoes across the Pacif...
The wildfires ripping across North America have created massive plumes of smoke.
These eight Lego Star Wars Smart Play sets are out...
From all-in-one to compatible sets, these are the eight Lego Star Wars Smart Play sets you won't wan...
A 'river' of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent...
A river of gas over a trillion miles long is streaming onto a young planet-forming system and is tip...
Blue Origin adding second pad to Cape Canaveral la...
As Blue Origin continues to repair its New Glenn launch pad following the rocket's explosion in May,...
'This is unprecedented': Why the Pentagon's recent...
The Pentagon's recent spate of UFO releases represent a big shift and are of great benefit to the co...
How to watch 'Lanterns' — HBO's gritty new Green L...
Hal Jordan and John Stewart don the classic green in this new hardboiled space cop mystery
NASA funds spherical 'Aerobots' that could explore...
An early-stage grant is offering a look at spherical 'Aerobots' that could zoom around the caves of ...
On this day in space! Aug. 16, 1963: Wingless M2-F...
On this day in space Aug. 16, 1963: NASA's M2-F1 aircraft prototype makes its first glide flight.
Artemis II pilot thanks NASA for letting him fly O...
The Artemis II crew thanked NASA and its contractors in front of a crowd of over 8,000 on on Aug. 3,...
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft po...
New chronology, data about the moon's far side and a homegrown cartographic standard signal China's ...
Stomp Rockets: The perfect start to model rocketry...
Stomp Rockets can open up the world of model rocketry to your kids.
When Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phospho...
In 1869, Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher isolated a phosphorus-rich substance from pus-soaked banda...
Roman concrete piers built two thousand years ago ...
Roman piers along the Mediterranean have stood for two thousand years while modern reinforced concre...
We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert...
Sediment cores, ancient DNA, and 15,000 rock paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer confirm the Sahara was a g...
Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and respo...
What neuroscience reveals about our most beloved quote on human agency—and whether the freedom it pr...
A coastal redwood named Hyperion stands 115.9 metr...
The world's tallest living tree, a 115.9-metre coast redwood in California's Redwood National Park, ...
New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets jus...
SpaceX launched two of its Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart on Saturday evening (Aug. 15), set...
The Paradoxical Politics of Climate
The science was right all along, but which side suppresses inconvenient climate findings has fundame...
On this day in space! Aug. 15, 1977: Mysterious 'W...
On Aug. 15, 1977, astronomers using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope detected the fam...
