Science
Massive sunspot responsible for May's epic auroras...
Sunspot region AR3697 has returned — unleashing yet another X-class solar flare. Watch it erupt from...
Risk of bird flu outbreak in cows causing pandemic...
Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus receptors but no human-like ones, a study has found, mea...
Boeing Starliner astronauts arrive at launch site ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back near their launch site in Florida ahead of ...
Real-life 'Star Trek' planet was actually just an ...
Just like the fictional planet of Vulcan was wiped out in Star Trek, new research has destroyed the ...
Parkinson’s disease could be prevented by a recent...
People who have had a recent vaccine against tetanus appear to be less likely to develop Parkinson’s...
Quantum time travel: The experiment to 'send a par...
Time loops have long been the stuff of science fiction. Now, using the rules of quantum mechanics, w...
Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraf...
Dinkinesh, the asteroid visited by NSA’s Lucy mission in 2023, has a small moon that is made from tw...
Starship launch 4: When is the next SpaceX test fl...
SpaceX is getting ready to launch its massive Starship rocket, perhaps as soon as 5 June, and we hav...
What would happen if we pulled out Mars’s iron cor...
Mars is a planet much beloved and much maligned, and in this episode of Dead Planets Society it is g...
That giant sunspot that supercharged auroras on Ea...
Old sunspot region AR 13664, now renamed AR 13697, is back. With its re-arrival, can we expect a res...
Doctor Who '73 Yards': Who exactly is that old wom...
The TARDIS lands in Wales, where the Doctor disappears and Ruby finds herself at the heart of a cree...
Can Google fix its disastrous new AI search tool?
Google's AI Overviews tool can offer impressive answers to search queries, but it will also make up ...
Euclid telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars w...
The Euclid telescope has allowed astronomers to discover a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars torn...
Bejeweled galaxy sparkles in new Hubble photo
A bejeweled galaxy shines brightly in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Is it time to put a dimmer on the push for space s...
The thought of beaming power to an energy-hungry Earth from space has long been studied. It was firs...
Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest known attempt ...
Cut marks on a 4000-year-old skull suggest ancient Egyptian doctors tried to treat a man with nasoph...
Robotic Russian cargo ship leaves the ISS, burns u...
Russia's uncrewed Progress 86 cargo craft departed the International Space Station early Tuesday mor...
How scientists shipped astronomy's largest camera ...
The largest camera ever built for astronomy arrived in Chile, where it will be installed atop Rubin ...
Volcanoes on Venus might be erupting right now
Venus may be as geologically active as Earth, with volcanoes possibly spewing on its surface in the ...
Netflix's new sci-fi flick 'Atlas' charms with old...
A review of director Brad Peyton's new sci-fi adventure flick, "Atlas."
Watch SpaceX send Earth-observing satellite to orb...
SpaceX will launch the EarthCARE mission this afternoon (May 28) after sending aloft a group of Star...
Scientists pick their favorite Euclid 'dark univer...
The European Space Agency has now released ten images from its dark universe detective spacecraft, E...
Does the Milky Way orbit anything?
Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe?
Chinese astronauts install debris shielding on Tia...
Two Chinese astronauts spent about 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28), sett...
These scientific rules of connection can superchar...
Several psychological biases undermine our ability to make new friends. Understand them and you’ll k...
Zero Debris Charter aims to boost international co...
ESA and some of its member states have signed the non-binding Zero Debris Charter, committing themse...
Just keep swimming! Zebrafish doing fine in zero g...
The four zebrafish China sent to its space station are thriving after spending almost a month in orb...
The behavioural science that can help us choose mo...
Sophie Attwood is working with the food industry to promote some surprising psychological tricks des...
