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Chris Packham: 'I'd throw myself in front of a T. ...
As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding t...
SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered ...
A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and ...
The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surfac...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in...
5 graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more ...
Longer-lasting hot spells and high temperatures at night are making it harder to cope, leading to th...
Ovaries may turn into an 'immune-like organ' after...
The ovaries of aged mice become infiltrated with immune cells linked to widespread inflammation in t...
Ovary identity shift after menopause may contribut...
We used to think post-menopausal ovaries sat inert in the body, but evidence from mice suggests they...
Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks...
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great vie...
Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch 81 satellites ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (Jul...
More clues surface about the origins of interstell...
Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support si...
Bumblebee facial movements give clues to their inn...
A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal st...
Artefacts hint at cultural exchange between Neande...
A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens,...
NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecra...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar syst...
Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' ...
Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope coul...
Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian bea...
The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-l...
How healthy is your brain? We now know how to find...
In our efforts to keep our brains healthy, how do we know what is working? Helen Thomson explores a ...
'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superco...
A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technolo...
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo ...
Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning n...
5 things to know about sunscreen, according to a s...
How much sunscreen should you be using, when should you apply it, and are there any downsides to doi...
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...
