Science
Astronaut Scott Kelly on advising Apple's new spac...
Scott Kelly recently returned to the International Space Station during a trip to Berlin. The replic...
Why space dust is key to everything from star birt...
Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is crucial to just about ev...
Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise...
A fear of predators may have helped many animals recognise when they weren't there. Now, it seems hu...
Why ISS astronauts won't know where to look for ne...
NASA can usually give precise directions to astronauts about ISS activities. But when it comes to th...
NASA 'worm' logo crawls onto Artemis 2 moon rocket...
The NASA worm logo is wriggling its way onto solid rocket boosters that will help launch the four-as...
Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-...
As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to determine whether GP...
China to debut new Long March rockets in 2024
China will debut several new Long March rockets this year to boost its options for space launches.
UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear...
Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, th...
Perseverance rover spots Ingenuity helicopter's sn...
Ingenuity's broken helicopter blade has been spotted on Mars. The little chopper made a hard landing...
The best new science fiction books of March 2024
With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from...
Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon ...
When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallow waters to long-ter...
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine...
23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company is in dire financial ...
Goodnight, Odysseus. Intuitive Machines' private m...
Intuitive Machines has shut down its robotic Odysseus lander, which last week became the first-ever ...
1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity
Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupled among children an...
Oukitel BP2000 power station review
This newly released huge 640,000 mAh capacity power station is ideal for backup power at home and ca...
China names the spacecraft that will put its astro...
China's human spaceflight agency has given names to spacecraft being developed to put astronauts on ...
SpaceX Starship docking system readies for moon mi...
Ahead of the Artemis 3 lunar landing mission, hardware from SpaceX's Starship was used to simulate d...
Richard Truly, space shuttle astronaut and NASA ad...
Richard "Dick" Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led ...
James Webb Space Telescope reveals how stellar bla...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered how massive stars sculpt planetary...
Everything we know about Dune: Awakening
Experience Arrakis like never before in the upcoming sci-fi game Dune: Awakening.
El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the...
A climate model has forecast where the most extreme heat will occur during the current El Niño phase...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Flori...
SpaceX will launch 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on Leap Day (Feb. 29) after postponing a Crew...
Magic secrets on the moon: Q&A with David Copperfi...
Famed illusionist David Copperfield discusses his involvement with Intuitive Machines' historic moon...
Squid-like plant that lives mostly underground is ...
For the first time in nearly a century, a new genus of plant has been discovered in Japan, but it lo...
'Axion stars' that went boom after the Big Bang co...
Hypothetical particles called axions may have gathered to form "axion stars" that exploded in the ea...
Keto diet helps people maintain weight loss after ...
In a small study, people with type 2 diabetes maintained their weight loss on the low-carbohydrate k...
How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're...
The UK's JET nuclear fusion reactor has been shut down after 40 years, and now researchers hope to r...
Air is leaking from a Russian ISS module, but 'no ...
The space station has a leak at the aft end of the Russian Zvezda service module where the nation's ...
Get to the choppa! Artemis 2 moon astronauts pract...
The Artemis 2 moon astronauts went to the Pacific Ocean this month to practice splashdown operations...
Miso paste made in space opens a new frontier for ...
A fermentation experiment on the International Space Station produced miso paste with a flavour dist...
A simple trick can make a dog treat a stranger as ...
If an unfamiliar person spends 15 minutes following a dog, it tends to follow them back in a possibl...
Why NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps waited an extra 6...
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps was supposed to fly to space in 2018, but it didn't happen. It took two...
