Science
In 1955, when a journalist asked Jonas Salk who ow...
On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk told Edward R. Murrow on live television that no one owned the patent ...
At birth, a human infant has roughly 300 separate ...
A newborn arrives with roughly 300 bones held together by cartilage, and an adult has 206. The missi...
SpaceX serious about building factories on the moo...
SpaceX plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to do much of the heavy lifting, Elon Musk...
'Not looking good right now': Starship likely to b...
SpaceX is still towing Starship's upper stage toward shore two weeks after its latest test flight, b...
NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyag...
NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, can keep operating its last science instruments afte...
Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telesco...
The James Webb Space Telescope's strange "little red dots" may be evolving into spiral galaxies.
How to safely observe eclipses and the solar surfa...
Solar observation is easy with a smart telescope like the Unistellar eQuinox 2 and the matching filt...
NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny cap...
These tiny capes carry some serious technology.
Engineers race to save stricken LINK rescue spacec...
The private LINK spacecraft, which launched last month to save a NASA space telescope, now needs sav...
Chinese company Landspace targets Aug. 10 for hist...
The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for its second attempt to catch an orbital ro...
On this day in space! Aug. 7, 1980: NASA's Viking ...
On Aug. 7, 1980, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft orbiting Mars ended its epic and historic mission to the...
Cosmic treasure chest explodes with baby stars | S...
The Carina Nebula is truly something to behold in this new snapshot.
The UK is about to witness its most spectacular so...
The Aug. 12 eclipse won't bring totality to Britain, but up to 98% of the sun will disappear in one ...
Why you don't need a perfectly clear sky to enjoy ...
Millions will see a deep partial or total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, but there's no need to fixate on...
'1 more step': NASA astronauts conduct 6.5-hour sp...
Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware ...
Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing satel...
Rocket Lab launched its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS on Thursday morni...
'Strange New Worlds' latest 'Hangover'-inspired ep...
Seeking rest or relaxation? You're unlikely to find either on a "Star Trek" holiday
SpaceX rocket's impact crater on the moon spied by...
South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter has spied the crater that a SpaceX rocket blasted out when it sla...
Blue Origin traces origin of huge New Glenn rocket...
Blue Origin has made considerable progress in its New Glenn anomaly investigation, tracing the probl...
On this day in space! Aug. 6, 2012: NASA lands hug...
On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface in a way ne...
Mars rover watches Earth disappear behind Phobos |...
"Phobos crosses the Martian sky three times a day, and Earth is visible for months at a stretch, but...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 wasn't the first rocket to crash...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage that collided with the moon on Wednesday (Aug. 5), was just t...
In 1890, a German chemist named August Kekulé told...
The famous ouroboros dream Kekulé described in 1890 arrived 25 years after his benzene paper and lef...
Plan your perfect 2026 total solar eclipse experie...
From exact timings to cloud cover warnings, these smartphone apps will help you dial in on the 2026 ...
Where will the total solar eclipse 2026 be visible...
Find out where you can experience totality on Aug. 12, 2026, and which countries will experience a p...
'Warhammer 40,000' animated series coming to Prime...
Henry Cavill will executive produce this spirited spinoff of 2024's 'Secret Level' anthology.
The 'Dark Matter' season 2 trailer is here, and it...
"The box is the most powerful thing ever created."
A SpaceX rocket just crashed into the moon. Now, t...
Early this morning, a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at seven times the speed of sound. Now, lu...
Astronomers witness the strange final moments of a...
Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealin...
Curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycombs on Mar...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted surprising honeycomb-like shapes in the Red Planet soil while ex...
On this day in space! Aug. 5, 2011: NASA's Juno sp...
On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet...
Mars dust is toxic. How will future astronauts dea...
Mars dust is known to contain various carcinogens, such as silica and numerous heavy metals. How wil...
'The Ninth Jedi' review: This anime spin-off aband...
Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi may not be the Star Wars TV show you were looking for, ...
Heading to Europe or the U.K. for the Aug. 12 sola...
We've rounded up the best solar eclipse glasses so you can watch safely from wherever you are.
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to ...
Sergei Krikalev launched to Mir in May 1991 as a Soviet citizen and landed 311 days later in a count...
Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 1...
Follow our live coverage of the total solar eclipse 2026 as we count down to eclipse day with the la...
1 week to go until a dramatic total solar eclipse ...
Here's what you need to know before the total solar eclipse one week from now.
SpaceX wants to launch next Starship this month (a...
SpaceX plans to notch some big milestones on the next test flight of its Starship megarocket, which ...
Watch SpaceX launch 3 giant BlueBird direct-to-cel...
SpaceX plans to launch three of AST SpaceMobile's huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites early on W...
When a total solar eclipse darkens the sky on Aug....
Meet the citizen scientist initiative bringing you closer to totality.
August full moon 2026: When, where and how to see ...
Your guide to August's full Sturgeon Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on 90th Falcon...
SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit today (Aug. 4), on th...
'A very busy mission': SpaceX on track to launch 4...
NASA and SpaceX officials, together with the four members of Crew-13, spoke to the media on Aug. 3, ...
A 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the mo...
While the impact itself probably won't be visible from Earth, observers may have a chance to spot a ...
ISS astronaut spies a swirling super storm | Space...
From the International Space Station on Aug. 2, 2026, NASA astronaut Anil Menon captured an incredib...
On this day in space! Aug. 4, 2007: NASA launches ...
On Aug. 4, 2007, NASA launched its Phoenix Mars Lander on a mission to touch down in the Martian arc...
'Significant areas of Mars may have once been cove...
A new analysis of decades-old data from NASA's Spirit rover has uncovered overlooked traces of cryst...
Are aliens running out of places to hide? It turns...
Astronomers may have already scanned millions of more stars than they thought, a realization that mi...
I bought a $50 telescope on Facebook Marketplace —...
I bought a $50 telescope from Facebook Marketplace
In 1868, a French astronomer studying a solar ecli...
During a six-minute solar eclipse over coastal India in 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen caugh...
