Science
Commercial Chinese rocket launches small returnabl...
The Chinese company iSpace's sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch C...
Microbes in Atacama desert's lost lagoons may mirr...
A jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama des...
VP Kamala Harris lead National Space Council meeti...
Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her third National Space Council meeting today (Dec. ...
Famous quantum experiment could be shrunk to the s...
A single, extremely cold atom could play the role of two slits in the classic double-slit experiment...
What's it like to buzz an Artemis SLS moon rocket ...
When Artemis 1's moon rocket arrived on the launch pad in 2022, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman spent mo...
Drones accessories Christmas gift guide
Enhance your drone flying experience with our drone accessory holiday gift guide.
The laws of physics were broken in 2023 - by sperm...
New Scientist's most popular story of the year was about the discovery that sperm break Isaac Newton...
Firefly Aerospace launching 4th-ever mission today...
Firefly Aerospace plans to launch a mission called 'Fly the Lightning' today (Dec. 19), and you can ...
Strange 'slide whistle' fast radio burst picked up...
The fascinating patterns of 35 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) reveal new properties of these mys...
Watch Chinese astronauts get haircuts aboard Tiang...
Shenzhou 17 commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helpe...
How the runaway greenhouse gas effect can destroy ...
Scientists watched as a simulated planet was driven from a habitable Earth-like heaven to an inhospi...
NASA laser-beams adorable cat video to Earth from ...
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment streamed a high-definition video of Taters the c...
Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA's 1st successful two-way laser...
NASA has completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system, marking a significant a...
Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy's 'forbidden' l...
The "forbidden" light of the spiral galaxy MCG-01-24-014 is captured in a new image from the Hubble ...
Snowflakes fall to the ground according to a unive...
After analysing the way half a million snowflakes fell during mountain storms in Utah, researchers f...
Everything we know about 'Alien: Romulus'
Xenomorphs are invading the big screen once again with a movie from 'Evil Dead' helmer Fede Álvarez....
Elon Musk spent 2023 shaping Twitter – sorry, X – ...
After taking control of Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk hired a new CEO to replace himself, all while con...
James Webb Space Telescope may have found the olde...
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of the universe's oldest black holes is giving astronomer...
This alien planetary system has a Jupiter world 99...
Astronomers found two planetary systems centered around solar analogs containing mini-Neptune planet...
Watch Artemis 2 moon crew takes a slide for NASA t...
The next moon astronauts practiced sliding out of their Orion spacecraft during a simulated emergenc...
See the last half moon of 2023 swim with the fish ...
The moon reaches its first quarter moon phase on Dec. 19, crossing the sky in the Pisces constellati...
These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' ...
A group has been formed to study and promote a space-based sunshade as a method to help fend off glo...
‘Clinical-grade’ AI stress detector doesn't work, ...
An AI-powered test that claimed to be “clinical grade” listens for signs of stress in people’s voice...
The best photos of the natural world in 2023
A fiery volcanic eruption, a flower preserved in amber and a ‘superbloom’ of wildflowers feature in ...
The 12 best science documentaries of 2023
From David Attenborough on dinosaurs to Michael J. Fox’s insight into living with Parkinson’s diseas...
Google wants to solve tricky physics problems with...
Quantum computers could become more useful now researchers at Google have designed an algorithm that...
Space weather will drag NASA's NEOWISE asteroid-hu...
After more than a decade of hunting for asteroids and comets, the days of NASA's NEOWISE mission are...
The rings of Uranus look positively festive in epi...
The observations are vital for piecing together the science objectives for a future mission to Uranu...
Chimpanzees recognise photos of friends they haven...
Bonobos and chimps in zoos remember individuals they lived with more than 20 years ago, showing a lo...
SpaceX gearing up for 3rd Starship flight (photos)...
A month after its latest liftoff, SpaceX's giant Starship rocket is getting ready to fly again.
China's space plane apparently deployed 6 'mysteri...
Just four days after being launched on its third mission, China's mysterious reusable space plane se...
Western Europe's 1st vertical spaceport cleared fo...
Western Europe's first vertical spaceport receives a launch license, paving the way for the continen...
We may have found a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io fo...
Jupiter’s moon Io is so volcanically active that any impact craters are rapidly covered up, but an a...
Stunning JWST image of Uranus shows 13 rings and n...
Rings, moons, storms and a bright polar cap can be seen in this breathtaking new image of Uranus fro...
Inside the secretive cannabis lab that makes futur...
In the final episode of our three-part podcast series, Christie Taylor peers into efforts to grow ca...
