Science
Astronaut captures mesmerizing auroras with iPhone...
Auroras paint the International Space Station purple in new iPhone photo from orbit.
The great Halley's Comet disappointment of 1986 — ...
What disappointed skywatchers in 1986 became a scientific triumph, as an international fleet of spac...
A faint glow from the early universe could help so...
Hydrogen may be the most common element in the cosmos, but scientists could use it to do something u...
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 Starlink mission for 1st ...
SpaceX launched 27 of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Oct. 12), the first such mis...
SpaceX launching 6,300 pounds of cargo to the ISS ...
SpaceX will launch more than 3 tons of cargo toward the International Space Station on Tuesday morni...
Astronomers witness supermassive black hole gorge ...
Using the NASA spacecraft Swift, astronomers observed a supermassive black hole burping radio jets 3...
The moon could turn astronauts into 'walking, high...
NASA is asking for ideas to stop static electricity from zapping astronauts or critical hardware dur...
The 'Halloween Fireballs' are coming. Here's what ...
The Southern and Northern Taurid meteor showers will produce occasional bright, slow-moving meteors ...
On this day in space! Oct. 12, 1964: The Soviet Un...
On Oct. 12, 1964, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1, a 24-hour crewed mission that achieved severa...
Namibian salt flats look like an alien planet | Sp...
The Etosha Pan in northern Namibia, the largest salt flat in the country, looks otherworldly in this...
How the impossible geometry of 'Tomb Raider III''s...
Bigger on the inside? Where have we heard that before?
What caused a mysterious atmospheric explosion in ...
Fire erupted in the morning skies over Siberia on June 30, 1908, as an atmospheric explosion occurre...
UAE unveils lander for bold 7-asteroid mission set...
In March 2028, the UAE is set to launch an ambitious mission to the asteroid belt between Mars and J...
On this day in space! Oct. 11, 1968: Apollo 7 laun...
On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
Alien: Isolation 2: This highly anticipated sequel...
More than a decade after the original, Sega and Creative Assembly are bringing back a true Alien sur...
Astrophotographer captures 110 galaxies, star clus...
Astrophotographer Cornelis van Zuilen spent 352-hours of light data to create a spectacular mosaic o...
10 times 'Red Dwarf' beat other TV shows and movie...
The British sitcom has always been a breeding ground for memorable genre concepts.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 231 — Sailing ...
On Episode 231 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a dive deep into their favorite ...
On this day in space! Oct. 10, 1967: The Outer Spa...
On Oct. 10, 1967, the international Outer Space Treaty on how countries can use outer space ratified...
10 incredible places to see the 2027 'eclipse of t...
Beyond Luxor and southern Spain, the 2027 eclipse path crosses Mediterranean islands, mountain towns...
SpaceX launches 21 satellites to orbit for the US ...
SpaceX launched 21 "data transport" satellites for the U.S. military today (Oct. 10), sending them u...
Mysterious 10-minute X-ray burst from a distant ga...
Astronomers investigating mysterious flashes of X-rays believe that these blasts could hide collisio...
'Dark Matter' showrunner and author Blake Crouch t...
'It's very humbling to get to work with so many smart people who are all trying to execute your visi...
Why is Orion lying down? How The Hunter taught me ...
We learn constellations from diagrams that stay conveniently upright. The real sky has other ideas —...
Palmer Luckey wants oxytocin used in marriage coun...
Palmer Luckey says he'd end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping. But no trial has ever measu...
On this day in space! Oct. 9, 1992: Peekskill mete...
On Oct. 9, 1992, a space rock the size of a bowling ball fell out of space and crash landed on a wom...
Scientists engineer microbe to help humanity settl...
A new genetically engineered microbe may one day help humanity settle Mars, a nonprofit biotechnolog...
Best space and sci-fi themed Halloween costumes fo...
It's never too early to plan your Halloween outfit — here are some of the best space-themed Hallowee...
Did the Soviet Union really fire a cannon from a s...
According to some reports, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union mounted a rapid-fire cann...
The Milky Way glows over telescopes in the Atacama...
Dark clouds swirl across a star-speckled sky as the Milky Way stretches above La Silla Observatory i...
Trump awards SpaceX founder Elon Musk National Med...
President Trump just gave Elon Musk and a handful of other tech luminaries the National Medal of Sci...
Private Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft departs the Int...
Northrop Grumman's robotic Cygnus XL spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (Oct....
Private astronaut Kellie Gerardi gets real about m...
"I think motherhood eventually has to become a bigger part of the conversation if we're serious when...
On 21 November 2016 a gust front crossed Melbourne...
Only 28% of the emergency patients surveyed after Melbourne's 2016 thunderstorm asthma epidemic had ...
How to watch 'Disclosure Day' online — stream Stev...
How to stream "Disclosure Day", Steven Spielberg's UFO epic starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor and ...
A dead Soviet satellite just broke apart in orbit ...
An old Soviet satellite has fragmented into multiple pieces in low Earth orbit, the latest in a stri...
NASA's hunting for a secret underground cave on th...
Will future astronauts take shelter in moon caves?
James Webb Space Telescope helps detect the most d...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant Fast Radio Burst (...
In 1948, many doctors thought normal blood pressur...
In 1911 a life insurance doctor was already sorting blood pressure readings by age. Decades later ma...
'Dude! No way!' Scientists jump for joy over Artem...
We have our first look at the science from Artemis II, and it's as amazing as we might have hoped.
On this day in space! Oct. 8, 1992: NASA's Pioneer...
On Oct. 8, 1992, NASA's Pioneer 12 spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere of Venus. Here's why it ma...
Dawn breaks on Mars | Space photo of the day for O...
NASA's Curiosity rover recently captured a stunning panorama of a Martian mountain range bathed in g...
Relive Starship's 1st-ever orbital flight with the...
Newly released footage shows Starship's upper stage separating from its booster and deploying Starli...
Why October is one of the best months of the year ...
Clearer skies, comfortable temperatures, and a mix of summer and winter constellations make October ...
Astronomers watch 'vampire' star feeding on the st...
Astronomers have observed a stellar vampire feeding on a 'failed star' brown dwarf companion for the...
Northern lights possible across the US tonight and...
Multiple CMEs could give the northern lights a boost across the northern US from Oct. 9, with furthe...
When researchers counted 3,612 hectares of restore...
The eelgrass meadow seeded back into Virginia's seaside bays now covers 4,792 hectares and keeps spr...
Doctors long assumed bed rest would help back pain...
A 1995 Finnish trial randomly assigned 186 people with a recent bout of low back pain to two days of...
'Things are going super well at 39A': SpaceX geari...
SpaceX is working hard to get historic Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ready for launches of ...
The Draconid meteor shower peaks tonight before be...
The Draconid meteor shower reaches peak activity on the evening of Oct. 8 in the beautifully dark sk...
