Science
'Dark stars' could be the seeds of supermassive bl...
A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead "dark sta...
SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, lands rock...
SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satel...
On this day in space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total solar e...
On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia.
Ancient stars dazzle in a celestial chandelier | S...
Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster.
My favorite thing in the night sky appears on Aug....
We'll soon get a chance to see a giant curved shadow in space move slowly across the moon during a v...
Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated th...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fi...
Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about p...
China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this week...
China aims to launch its Chang'e 7 moon mission on Aug. 24 to send a lander, a rover, a hopper and a...
SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch 'in a...
SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from no...
Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scien...
"Even a bootprint or a rover's tread may create a habitable area."
'Wet Hot American Summer': The raunchy 2000s teen ...
Reminiscing about the summer camp Skylab disaster movie on its 25th anniversary.
A weather satellite 22,000 miles above Earth saved...
Joe Rao took to sea aboard the cruise ship Le Boréal to watch the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 20...
Ludicrous, nonsensical, an affront to canon — 'Str...
It could have been a disaster, but "Star Trek"'s collaboration with the Jim Henson Company is a hila...
Mars Express orbiter captures detailed new video o...
Europe's Mars Express orbiter has captured stunning telemetry to create a new flyover visualization ...
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: Voyager 2 lau...
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore ...
Try not to be hypnotized by the 'Eye of Africa' | ...
This geologic feature has been mesmerizing astronauts since 1965.
James Webb Space Telescope finds 'hidden stars' ma...
James Webb Space Telescope is finding that between the brightest stars, the cosmic skyscrapers, ther...
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing t...
Follow our live coverage as we count down to the deepest partial lunar eclipse until December 2028, ...
A 96% partial lunar eclipse is just 1 week away: H...
Earth's inner shadow will cover 96% of the moon's disk during the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse.
Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Japanese Earth-o...
Rocket Lab will launch its ninth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS this morning (A...
Scientists just found the fastest known star in th...
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagitta...
Private mission to save NASA's Swift space telesco...
A private spacecraft tasked with boosting the orbit of NASA's Swift Observatory has failed in its mi...
Scientists create 'laundry gun' for astronauts to ...
A pen-sized apparatus called a "laundry gun" could sterilize astronauts' clothes in space.
'The Mandalorian and Grogu' finally blasts onto Di...
Will this underwhelming spinoff of "The Mandalorian" find new life in the streaming world?
Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously...
A jet erupting from a distant supermassive black hole-powered blazar is being gravitationally lensed...
A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month —...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crater gouged out on the moon by a SpaceX rocket...
Mysterious Russian 'space activity' causes US Air ...
A mysterious incident over the South Pacific forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around on Aug....
13 sci-fi books that inspired our favorite shows a...
These are the books that inspired our favorite science fiction worlds on the big and small screens, ...
My 5 favorite sights to see in the night sky with ...
Here are our top picks on what to look for when using binoculars to explore the night sky.
On this day in space! Aug. 19, 1997: 1st Filipino ...
On Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines launched its own satellite for the first time.
I sailed to Greenland for a total solar eclipse — ...
I understood the science and had seen thousands of eclipse photographs, but nothing prepared me for ...
In 1991, two hikers in the Ötztal Alps found a bod...
The 5,300-year-old man found in an Alpine glacier in 1991 carried a copper axe traced to Tuscany, 61...
Touchdown! Private Chinese rocket aces landing on ...
The Beijing-based company LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), notching a hu...
Forget 'Halo' — the latest 'Futurama' episode has ...
"A ring-shaped world shaped like a ring! I shall call it Wheel World."
NASA astronaut and 1st female French spacewalker r...
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and first female French spacewalker Sophie Adenot removed a failed antenna...
Starship lives! SpaceX craft arrives at Christmas ...
After Starship's test launch and splashdown last month, SpaceX recovery teams have successfully tugg...
Watch SpaceX launch its 100th mission of the year ...
SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year tonight (Aug. 18), and you can watch the action liv...
Hydrogen-powered 'rocket car' tops 400 mph in reco...
The JCB Hydromax vehicle averaged more than 400 mph during two runs in Utah last week, becoming the ...
Hubble, James Webb team up to capture the 'Black E...
The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in a gorgeous new composite image from the Hubble and James Webb ...
On this day in space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total solar e...
On this day in space! Aug. 18, 1868: Total solar eclipse leads to discovery of helium
A beginner’s guide to observing the night sky with...
A telescope can help you explore the night sky, but only if you know how to use it.
It's harder to poop in space. Scientists may final...
Spaceflight can do strange things to the human body — including making it harder for astronauts to p...
See gorgeous views of the Aug. 12 total solar ecli...
Orbiting spacecraft captured incredible views of the moon's shadow darkening Earth during the Aug. 1...
Watch European astronaut make history during space...
On Aug. 18, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will become the first French woman ever to...
How an ancient collision with another galaxy trans...
The Milky Way has a secret history of galaxy mergers that we are only now starting to uncover.
China bounces back from Long March rocket explosio...
China's space program has returned to flight after an Aug. 10 Long March 7A rocket explosion, launch...
The best Ruko drone to date is half-price at Amazo...
Looking to take to the skies? This beginner-friendly Ruko F11 PRO 2 is a mind-blowing $280 off, but ...
Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's ...
A composite image of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kitt Peak four-meter telescope and MO...
