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SpaceX will launch Starship, the world's largest r...
SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 13 today (July 16), a test mission that will send "V3" Starli...
'Full steam ahead': NASA ramps up prep for Artemis...
NASA is busy preparing for Artemis III, the next crewed mission of its moon program launching on the...
Watch Archimedes burn! Rocket Lab fires up engine ...
Rocket Lab recently performed a full-duration static fire test with the engine that will power the s...
Meteorite that crashed through New Jersey house co...
"Thanks to the homeowner’s quick reaction, these are the most pristine CM1/2 meteorites we know of."...
Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a s...
"Our work shows that sugars can form naturally in space."
The 10 best places in the UK to see the partial so...
August 12 will see the deepest partial solar eclipse in the U.K. for many decades, hours before the ...
'Found you!' Astronomers spot faintest exoplanet e...
It has taken over ten years, but astronomers have finally won a prolonged game of cosmic hide-and-se...
Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a col...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers over the past year with...
What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 launch on...
SpaceX will launch its next Starship, carrying the first V3 Starlink satellites, on the Flight 13 te...
SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th tim...
SpaceX launched Starlink satellites on a pair of Falcon 9 rockets eight hours apart from opposite co...
Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hidin...
"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directl...
The 1st of 10,000 'missing' black holes in the Ome...
The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks...
'Once Upon a Time in Space': How to watch PBS's ou...
'It's like you’re going to Oz. It's glimmering, it's beautiful'
1st-ever X-rays in space offer hope for possible p...
A portable X-ray device has been used successfully in orbit for the first time, promising X-ray diag...
This cosmic 'lighthouse' is blazing a magnetic tra...
For the first time, astronomers have directly mapped the magnetic field surrounding one of the Milky...
How to watch SpaceX launch Starship Flight 13 on J...
SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight will carry out the first deployment of Starlink V3 satellites whi...
The biggest skywatching day of 2026 is coming. Her...
Whether you're in Spain, Iceland, the U.K. or North America, here's exactly what you'll see in the s...
Moon landings could destroy evidence of life's ori...
"We are trying to protect science and our investment in space."
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: SpaceX s...
SpaceX is progressing toward Starship's next big test launch.
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vap...
Sub-Neptune exoplanets could have atmospheres so dense and crushing that rock is vaporized to form c...
Russia's launching a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonau...
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two cosmonauts will launch toward the International Space Station atop...
NASA begins stacking rocket ahead of 2027 Artemis ...
NASA has begun assembling segments of the SLS solid rocket boosters that will help launch astronauts...
SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, rev...
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than July 16 for the next launch of its massive Starship rocket. Flig...
"The Ninth Jedi" is a bold new Star Wars anime pro...
This limited series expands on 2021's 'Star Wars: Visions'' episode, 'The Ninth Jedi,' from director...
Extremely Large Telescope reaches a major mileston...
The Extremely Large Telescope is looking quite large in this exciting moment.
Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospac...
Backed by a $1.1 billion valuation, Skyroot Aerospace is betting that its Vikram-1 rocket can help t...
Space junk debris cloud discovered in high-traffic...
"The debris in geosynchronous orbit is a potential minefield."
Reflect Orbital just got permission to launch its ...
Reflect Orbital just got approval to launch its first light-directing space mirror, which it plans t...
Two Asian mantis species just got Europe’s harshes...
Two large Asian praying mantis species have established breeding populations across parts of Europe....
A Parkinson’s-linked protein can spread from cell ...
A protein associated with Parkinson’s disease can move from one brain cell to another. Yale research...
Every year, a single bristlecone pine named Methus...
High in California's White Mountains, a Great Basin bristlecone pine called Methuselah has been layi...
Why space games still struggle with the scale of t...
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
149 million views! Artemis II moon mission breaks ...
The Artemis II astronauts made an impact on potentially hundreds of millions of people during their ...
The human bloodstream now carries an average of 1....
A 2022 Dutch study first quantified plastic in human blood at 1.6 micrograms per milliliter. Follow-...
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tiss...
California-based company Auxilium Biotechnologies just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for...
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive because...
Every banana contains potassium-40, a radioactive isotope with a 1.25-billion-year half-life. Health...
Columbia researchers combed through 9,000 patient ...
A chemical messenger best known for shaping mood may also help decide when a diseased heart valve fa...
1 month until the total solar eclipse 2026 — Here'...
The countdown is on! It's not too late to plan your trip for the total solar eclipse 2026.
The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 t...
The human gut lining rebuilds itself every four to five days, driven by Lgr5-positive stem cells at ...
Your lost dog can now call home with the world's 1...
A new dog collar with GPS tracking enabled by SpaceX's Starlink direct-to-mobile network promises co...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 218 — Which Wa...
On Episode 218 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss NASA's new moonbase plans wit...
Sci-fi action movies were better in the '90s. 'Ind...
Superheroes and franchises haven't always ruled the multiplex…
In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Mie...
{"content":"In the winter of 1869, a 24-year-old Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher walked to a ...
The Roman Pantheon’s unreinforced concrete dome ha...
Hadrian's builders finished the Pantheon's 142-foot concrete dome around 128 CE, using progressively...
Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only an...
Wombats are the only animal on Earth known to produce cube-shaped droppings, formed by uneven stiffn...
Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to ...
Reykjavík's Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to build and was designed by architect Guðjón Samúe...
A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a ...
Cymothoa exigua is the only known parasite that anatomically replaces one of its host's organs. It e...
