Science
'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...
'Lanterns': Who's who in HBO's Green Lantern show?...
In brightest day, in blackest night, no Lanterns character shall escape our sight!
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 223 — The Luna...
On Episode 223 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Dale Skran are joined by Dr. Scott ...
We think these Nikon binoculars are excellent for ...
Get everything between 10x and 22x with Nikon’s new Action Zoom 10-22x50 binoculars
'Strap yourself in and feel the Gs': NASA announce...
NASA announced today (Aug. 14) that it will hold a two-day aerospace expo this November — an event w...
Is empty space really empty? This magnetic star ma...
"We're not just studying astronomical objects anymore; we're using them to test the laws of nature."...
Cards Against Humanity wants to erect a monument t...
Cards Against Humanity isn't done with its scorched-Earth campaign against SpaceX and Elon Musk, and...
6 space board games to channel the political drama...
“Whoever controls space will control the Earth.”
Will the new moon race turn Earth's nearest neighb...
We need rules to prevent space companies from dumping their old rockets onto the moon's surface in t...
US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397 million to bu...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Rocket Lab $397 million to manufacture a new fleet of "Flatellites"...
Can Venus cast a shadow? Here's how to see it for ...
As Venus gets close to its greatest brilliancy in the evening sky, it’s a good time to test one of a...
Water can survive surprisingly close to the Milky ...
Water and cosmic dust can survive in the harsh environment near Sagittarius A*, new observations rev...
On this day in space! Aug. 14, 1992: Meteorite sho...
On Aug. 14, 1992, a space rock entered the atmosphere over Mbale, Uganda and exploded into hundreds ...
The ISS photobombs the sun during the total solar ...
The silhouette of the ISS transiting across the sun's face during the Aug. 12, 2026 total solar ecli...
India-US space ties deepen as NASA invites ISRO to...
NASA has invited the Indian Space Research Organisation to collaborate on its Moon Base program, whi...
SpaceX rocket's moon crash highlights 'a tangible ...
A SpaceX rocket body slammed into the moon earlier this month, showcasing a risk that will increase ...
Our expert thinks this portable Celestron telescop...
The perfect instrument for introducing beginner astronomers to the moon and stars
Every year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust li...
A dried lakebed in Chad exhales roughly 27.7 million tonnes of phosphorus-rich dust each year. Trade...
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke retires after 30 years ...
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has retired from NASA after 30 years of public service, leaving behind a ...
Supermassive black hole spews energy 300,000 light...
That's three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy.
NASA's canceled lunar space station tech will help...
Northrop Grumman plans to take technology built into the HALO module for NASA's canceled lunar space...
'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new direct...
Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files", is revisiting the 2008 film "The X-Files: I Want to Believe"...
How to image the planets with a telescope and came...
Follow our step-by-step tutorial to photographing Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Venus
Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight...
Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to Februar...
The Perseid meteor shower peak was spectacular: He...
The Perseid meteor shower never disappoints, and we've got some great photos this year to prove it.
Total solar eclipse stuns skywatchers | Space phot...
This photo, snapped just as the Aug. 12 solar eclipse was about to enter its totality phase, really ...
'Strange New Worlds' latest lookalike episode is p...
Haven't we seen your face before? On the final frontier, your identical face twin is never far away…...
When is the next solar eclipse? Mark your calendar...
You thought 2026 was a good year for solar eclipses? Just wait until 2027…
New private 'Perceptor' probes will keep an eye on...
Astranis' newly announced Perceptor spacecraft will monitor satellite activity in geostationary orbi...
This year's 'Masters of the Universe' movie wasn't...
How bad timing, a studio in financial turmoil, and a movie that looked nothing like the cartoon cons...
Total solar eclipse 2026 thrills millions with a s...
A total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers on Aug. 12, 2026 as it arced across Greenland, Iceland and S...
Total solar eclipse 2026 has begun. Here are the f...
The first breathtaking photos of totality for the total solar eclipse 2026 are pouring in, revealing...
Radiation-shielding vest aced Artemis I lunar test...
A radiation-shielding vest aced its Artemis I lunar test in 2022, suggesting that it could protect a...
Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help s...
A distant black hole star is providing strong evidence that these objects lie at the hearts of the m...
On this day in space! Aug. 12, 2005: Mars Reconnai...
On Aug. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission.
