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1st full moon of 2023 was a wonderful Wolf Moon wo...
The first full moon of 2023, January's Wolf Moon, led to some gorgeous imagery around the world.
Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite view of ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling view of an open cluster of stars in the Small Mag...
Space mining startups see a rich future on asteroi...
Space mining has matured to the point where there are dozens of startup companies planning to begin ...
Quantum money that uses the mathematics of knots c...
A monetary system built using a combination of quantum computers and the mathematics of knots could ...
Dead NASA satellite to crash to Earth this weekend...
A defunct NASA satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere on Sunday evening (Jan. 8), but t...
How California can capture stormwater to fight off...
With atmospheric rivers drenching the US west coast, researchers are testing methods to capture as m...
AI chatbots could hit a ceiling after 2026 as trai...
The stock of language data that artificial intelligences like ChatGPT train on could run out by 2026...
XBB.1.5: What we know so far about the latest omic...
A highly transmissible covid-19 subvariant called XBB.1.5 is now the dominant cause of covid-19 infe...
Satellites watch atmospheric river continue to dre...
More rain is on its way to the already drenched western U.S. as forecasters observe two new "atmosph...
Virgin Orbit aims to launch historic mission from ...
Virgin Orbit's "Start Me Up" mission is scheduled to lift off Monday (Jan. 9) from Spaceport Cornwal...
James Webb Space Telescope spies Milky Way mimics ...
Galaxies like our Milky Way sprouted up earlier than scientists expected as revealed by new James We...
The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's bigge...
Fossils show plants were producing higher levels of sunscreen chemicals to protect against higher ul...
Wild mission concepts would melt into icy moons, s...
From the nearby moon to distant Triton, planetary scientists have a plethora of ideas for how to exp...
Watch a comet make its closet approach in 50,000 y...
To share a view of comet C/2022 E3 ZTF at perihelion with anyone interested, the Virtual Telescope P...
Supersized wind turbine could weather storms by be...
There is a limit to how big existing wind turbine designs can get, which limits the power they can p...
Satellites watch Europe get hit by most severe win...
Europe entered 2023 with what meteorologists described as the most intense winter heatwave in histor...
Previously hidden sunspot unleashes colossal X-cla...
A newly emerged sunspot is making its presence known, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare that...
10 best camera gifts for astrophotography and vide...
New camera gear for the holidays? It'll likely you'll need some accessories to go with it if you're ...
A comet not seen in 50,000 years is coming. Here's...
On Feb. 1, comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will pass to within 28 million miles (42 million km) of our planet,...
Crew set to fly on Boeing Starliner add final touc...
Boeing has finalized the design of its first crew mission patch. The aerospace company is preparing ...
Perseverance rover marks 1 Mars year on Red Planet...
NASA's Perseverance rover is wrapping up its prime mission after 687 Earth days on the Red Planet.
Twisted shapes of ancient trees may explain their ...
Pine trees that are more than 600 years old have unusual branching patterns and other strange charac...
Howl at January's Wolf Moon as the 1st full moon o...
On Friday (Jan. 6), the moon will be fully illuminated for the first time in 2023 during the Full Wo...
The 50-year quest to find the particle that almost...
When physicists first discovered a form of a radioactivity called beta decay it seemed to violate th...
AI could predict hurricanes or rogue waves from mi...
Learning the significance of data points allows artificial intelligence models to make better predic...
We may now know how childhood adversity leaves its...
Research in mice suggests that a newly identified brain pathway may be the reason childhood adversit...
Fly to space and back with SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...
A new video provides a rocket's-eye view of this week's Transporter-6 mission, SpaceX's 200th orbita...
Tiny Space Force weather cubesat went up on SpaceX...
One of the many payloads that took flight atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was a ti...
Massive, months-long volcanic eruption roils Jupit...
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanic body in the solar system, with outbursts occurring yearly. A ...
Track NASA's space radiation experiment BioSentine...
Now you can follow NASA's BioSentinel cubesat as it flies through space. The experiment will investi...
We've just discovered a new part of the brain's wa...
A thin layer of tissue called the subarachnoid lymphatic-like membrane, or SLYM, keeps fresh cerebro...
Perseverance Mars rover's sample cache now 40% com...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has dropped its fourth rock sample tube at a location in Jezero Crate...
Space candy: Asteroid smashed by NASA's DART probe...
Planetary scientists attending the first major conference since NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection T...
