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Artemis moon astronauts visit Capitol Hill | Space...
Following their return to Earth from a 10-day journey around the moon and back in April, NASA's Arte...
NASA will have to find a way to service its new al...
We could see robots working on NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory out in space.
Musical take on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is ...
A TED talk and then a film, William Kamkwamba’s story of how he worked to provide his rural Malawian...
Astronomers discover radio signals coming from rar...
Astronomers have detected radio signals coming from a long-dead neutron star known as the 'Blue Eye ...
Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be lock...
The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissi...
Human brains may have got bigger for no particular...
Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolution...
'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visi...
Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millenn...
Beetroot juice is trending – its benefits go beyon...
Some marathon runners and other athletes swear by beetroot juice shots, but is there evidence they r...
Can the biggest problems in AI be solved by philos...
AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, wh...
NASA tests advanced new Mars rover prototype in th...
A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves...
He-Man and beyond: 20 sci-fi cartoons (some iconic...
They had the power! Saturday morning cartoons introduced many kids to science fiction... and toys, l...
10 best Spanish cities to see the total solar ecli...
From A Coruña and Bilbao to Madrid and Zaragoza, here's where to see the total solar eclipse on Aug....
America 250: From 1776 to the moon and beyond (A S...
As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, our Space.com team took a look back at American ...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 217 — America ...
On Episode 217 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the progression of American s...
Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, ...
Humanity made some halting steps toward flight over the centuries, but our species was still firmly ...
What did the night sky look like on the 1st Indepe...
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, here's what Benjamin Franklin and other colonists would h...
30 years on, "Independence Day" still proves the v...
"Independence Day" isn't technically "The War of the Worlds" but it's still one of the most successf...
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I...
Get your eyes on the seventh planet, and you can graduate as a skywatcher — and there's a perfect wa...
As 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' turns 35, it's tim...
The future has been written, and it's a dark fate for the Terminator franchise.
‘Hobbit’ hominins scavenged meat left over by Komo...
An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousan...
Could humans someday explore Saturn's moon Titan, ...
Could humans ever set foot on Titan, or will AI-powered humanoid robots make the voyage instead?
'Independence Day' at 30: Roland Emmerich & Dean D...
'Welcome to Earth… Now that's what I call a close encounter!'
Celebrate 250 years of America with the Estes Libe...
Model rocket staple Estes has designed a limited edition model rocket decked out in red, white and b...
1 private spacecraft intercepts another on Space F...
A U.S. Space Force mission pitting two satellites against each other has completed the organization'...
A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth's primordi...
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of ...
Space science has come a long way since July 4, 17...
Celebrating America's 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was li...
Audacious mission to rescue NASA's falling telesco...
NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite...
Infant stars celebrate their independence with cos...
Infant stars celebrate their independence with cosmic fireworks in a stunning new image from the Jam...
Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their...
Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to...
Want to see Uranus? July 4 could be your best chan...
The Red Planet and Uranus will appear close together before dawn on Independence Day morning.
America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276?...
When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might w...
Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scient...
Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit ter...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satell...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base i...
SpaceX fires up all 6 of Starship's engines ahead ...
SpaceX completed a Starship engine test at its Starbase facility recently, igniting all six of the v...
'Silo' season 3: Release date & how to watch Apple...
Say so long to the sunshine as we plunge back into the deep mysteries of Silo 18.
Apollo 11 landing site, a cosmic Eagle and a blue-...
From the Apollo landing site to the North America Nebula, these celestial sights offer a uniquely Am...
'Stellar death is not the end': James Webb Space T...
"It's like using a time machine to peer into the distant future of our solar system."
June heatwave may have killed around 20,000 people...
It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but resear...
Random wobbles in time could finally solve gravity...
The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a no...
Astronomers discover a potentially habitable plane...
Astronomers discovered a planet 25 light-years away that orbits within the habitable zone of its sta...
Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve li...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to prov...
Geoengineering could expose plane passengers to su...
A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles w...
The best new popular science books of July 2026
From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular scienc...
How to invade planet Earth: An alien's guide to br...
From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with adv...
July full moon 2026: When, where and how to see th...
Your guide to July's full Buck Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.
In 1776, the moon was a clock, a calendar and a st...
The moon over America's first Independence Day was about 31 feet closer to Earth than it is today. H...
Sun fires off 10 solar flares in 24 hours as multi...
Multiple CMEs are heading toward Earth, with G1-G2 geomagnetic storm conditions possible as the holi...
Steven Spielberg sci-fi movies ranked, worst to be...
Disclosure Day has arrived in cinemas, and it's got us nostalgic for all Steven Spielberg's best dir...
Have scientists really made a living cell from scr...
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial g...
