Science
How do we know what the Milky Way looks like?
Directly mapping the Milky Way is an extremely challenging task, but observations of other galaxies ...
What would happen if Earth stopped spinning?
We can't feel Earth spinning and you probably take it for granted, but what would happen if it stopp...
Siberia’s mysterious exploding craters may be caus...
Several enormous craters left by explosions have been spotted in Siberia over the past 15 years, and...
Invasive mink eradicated from parts of England by ...
Invasive mink, which are native to North America, have been eradicated from most of East Anglia in E...
Ailing Peregrine moon lander on path to crash into...
The beleaguered private moon lander Peregrine is now on a collision course with Earth, Astrobotic sa...
The strange story of the grave of Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around...
New 'Star Trek' movie featuring Picard is on the w...
In a podcast recorded in November of last year, during his book promotion tour, Stewart said he was ...
See a thin crescent moon meet up with Saturn tonig...
The nearly new moon is set for a close approach to the gas giant Saturn on Sunday, Jan. 14, at which...
We've been 'close' to achieving fusion power for 5...
We've been 'close' to achieving fusion power for 50 years. When will it actually happen?
Strange ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may...
Titan’s methane seas have ephemeral “magic islands” that have baffled scientists for years. They may...
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Flori...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch on Sunday night (Jan. 14), sending 23 Starlink satel...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 93 — Does Amer...
On Episode 93 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod we talk space history and America's desire to go ...
Hobbled Peregrine moon lander limps to lunar dista...
Astrobotic's Peregrine lander has made it out to lunar distance, a major milestone for the crippled ...
NASA's Lunar Retroreflector Network could make lan...
Landing on the moon soon be much easier thanks to NASA's Lunar Retroreflector Array network being ca...
Some brain regions shrink in pregnancy and regrow ...
Brain scans of 110 first-time mothers during and after pregnancy showed that some brain regions beco...
NASA unveils the revolutionary X-59 Quesst 'quiet'...
NASA and Lockheed Martin showed off the finished X-59 Quesst jet today, which promises to usher in a...
Surprise gamma-ray discovery could shed light on c...
An unexpected and unexplained gamma-ray signal from beyond the Milky Way found among 13 years of NAS...
NASA unveils X-59 plane to test supersonic flight ...
NASA is hoping to gather evidence that its X-59 aircraft will be able to fly at the speed of sound q...
SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at pad for Ax-3 astr...
The SpaceX Dragon capsule that will fly the private Ax-3 astronaut mission to the International Spac...
New 'Star Trek' film will explore early years of S...
Paramount announces new "Star Trek" movie examining the origins of Starfleet
Fuel leak on ailing private Peregrine moon lander ...
The propellant leak that has crippled Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander continues to slow, allowing...
First unhackable shopping transactions carried out...
A secure exchange between a merchant and a buyer has been successfully tested as a proof of concept ...
AI can tell if prints from two different fingers b...
An artificial intelligence model can discern whether fingerprints from different fingers come from t...
'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 10 review: A se...
How far would you go to steal to an asteroid? This epic season closer has the answers.
Wispy ice clouds may form above Venus' hellish sur...
The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of i...
Caves seen on the surface of a comet for the first...
By building a 3D image of part of the surface of a comet called 67P, astronomers have discovered cav...
2023 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA...
NASA and NOAA announced that 2023 was the hottest year Earth has experienced, causing severe human a...
At last! NASA finally frees lid of asteroid Bennu ...
NASA technicians have finally removed the two stubborn fasteners that prevented them from accessing ...
Road trip! See April's total solar eclipse from on...
Check out these six awesome road trips where you can experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, ...
Will AI make computer screens a thing of the past?...
Big tech companies are offering new ways to interact with devices, powered by natural language proce...
Japan's 1st launch of 2024 sends spy satellite to ...
Japan launched a reconnaissance satellite called IGS Optical 8 to orbit Thursday night (Jan. 11) in ...
James Webb Space Telescope catches young planetary...
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught the young planetary system Beta Pictoris by the tail seein...
Hydropower generation in western US set to fall as...
A model of US water systems foresees a big drop in hydropower generation by 2050 as the climate gets...
The best DJI drones for all budgets 2024
Take your aerial photography and video to the next level with one of the best DJI drones available f...
Your unique breath ‘fingerprint’ could be used to ...
When we exhale, we reveal distinctive information about the shape of our airways, which could serve ...
Newfound Earth-size exoplanet has a scorching-hot ...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS spacecraft has discovered an Earth-sized alien world called HD 63433 d...
Astronomers accidentally discover 'dark' primordia...
Astronomers inadvertently discovered a "dark" galaxy rich in gas but lacking stars when they pointed...
The sun could contain a tiny black hole that forme...
Black holes may be hiding within stars and their extra mass could help explain odd gravitational eff...
Cheap drone attacks have outsized effect on global...
Drone attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are having a global economic impact and showing how an orga...
This huge exoplanet's comet-like tail is 350,000 m...
A hot Jupiter exoplanet's comet-like tail is far longer than previously thought, spanning at least 3...
Guinness yeasts are genetically unique among Irish...
The Guinness brewery has kept a record of the yeast strains it has used going back to 1903 – a genet...
Watch the mind-bending new trailer for sci-fi epic...
Netflix released an epic new trailer for its upcoming epic sci-fi series, "3 Body Problem" based on ...
Japanese earthquake on Jan. 1 shifted coastline ov...
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Jan. 1, causing uplift that extended the coastline along ...
NASA awards another $100 million for private space...
NASA has awarded nearly $100 million in additional funding to commercial space station partners that...
China's record-breaking Gravity-1 rocket aces amaz...
The Gravity-1 solid rocket, built by Chinese company Orienspace, aced its first-ever launch today (J...
Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s ...
Venus is wrapped in clouds that are rich in concentrated sulphuric acid, and we now know that severa...
SpaceX's new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites re...
SpaceX just broke in its newly launched direct-to-cell Starlink satellites, using them to send text ...
US grid vulnerable to power outages due to its rel...
Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls and outages during maj...
