Science
Ingenuity Mars helicopter tests new software on 37...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 37th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), acing a hop designed ...
Blue Origin offers new bobbleheads of 1st New Shep...
The first women to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard have been honored with their own bobbleheads. Th...
NASA's Mars InSight lander ends mission after losi...
The Red Planet's harsh dust has claimed another spacecraft.
Super-absorbent towel soaks up liquids better than...
A hydrogel mesh made from vinegar, baking soda, glycerol and alcohol sucks up water three times as w...
Tracking CO2 emissions from space could help suppo...
The central objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit Earth's warming to well below 2 degrees Cel...
Stimulating the brainstem may make cochlear implan...
In a study in rats, artificially stimulating the locus coeruleus in the animals' brainstem quickly i...
First 'Barbie' teaser trailer parodies Stanley Kub...
Warner Bros. releases the first "Barbie" trailer in a nod to Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Russian space debris forces space station to dodge...
A piece of Russian space junk forced NASA to call off a spacewalk and the International Space Statio...
There's a new trailer for the sci-fi movie '65' an...
A new trailer for 65, a sci-fi action movie featuring dinosaurs where the past meets the future, is ...
The sun is waking up, and the world's largest sola...
With the world's largest solar telescope now conducting formal observations, scientists are eager to...
Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 p...
Inadequate numbers of bees and other pollinators have a huge impact on human health due to lower pro...
Winter solstice 2022 brings the longest night of t...
The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Nor...
8 ways the James Webb Space Telescope is revolutio...
One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are trans...
Parasitic DNA makes us age faster - but we're not ...
Genetic parasites called retrotransposons become more active as we age, and an animal study suggests...
Twitter security flaw may leave videos sent in dir...
Videos sent in Twitter direct messages can theoretically be viewed by anyone, a weakness that could ...
Europe's Vega C rocket fails on 2nd-ever mission, ...
Europe's Vega C rocket failed during its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), which was s...
It may be possible to traverse a wormhole and then...
When matter falls into a wormhole, the wormhole is expected to collapse – but a probe may be able to...
Small and speedy animals perceive time faster than...
A comparison of 138 species finds that dragonflies perceive changes in their environment five times ...
COP15 biodiversity deal is ‘new era’ for Indigenou...
The agreement made at the COP15 biodiversity summit balanced a recognition of the importance of Indi...
Two potentially habitable Earth-like worlds orbit ...
Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system tha...
Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk early We...
Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays o...
Zero-G flight for disability ambassadors shows spa...
AstroAccess flew 14 individuals from 5 countries on a parabolic research flight Dec. 15, to open up ...
SpaceX aims to start launching next-gen Starlink s...
SpaceX will soon start launching a new generation of Starlink broadband satellites, which could help...
Strange arrangement of Milky Way's groupie galaxie...
Scientists may have explained the mysterious distribution of small satellite galaxies around our Mil...
NASA's InSight lander on Mars goes silent as power...
NASA lost contact with its Mars InSight lander on Monday (Dec. 18) after the spacecraft failed to re...
Shock wave from sun has opened up a crack in Earth...
A mysterious shock wave in a gust of solar wind has sent a barrage of high-speed material smashing i...
Salute Apollo 17's 50th anniversary with freshly r...
NASA restoration wizard Andy Saunders on Apollo 17's restored photos in his new book, "Apollo Remast...
DeepMind’s AI cuts energy costs for cooling buildi...
Research firm DeepMind has built an AI to optimise cooling systems in buildings. In tests, it reduce...
Watch Europe's Vega C rocket launch its 2nd missio...
Europe's Vega C rocket is scheduled to launch on its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20),...
Living in trees may have given great apes vocal sk...
A comparison of consonant-like sounds in great apes suggests an arboreal lifestyle may have been a s...
China picks 4 international payloads for historic ...
China has revealed that four international experiments will fly on its historic Chang'e 6 sample-ret...
Ursid meteor shower shines with ideal dark sky con...
The moon will be at new moon phase on Dec. 23 when the Ursid meteor shower reaches its peak, meaning...
Why are children catching so many illnesses this w...
Many countries in the northern hemisphere are seeing surges of childhood respiratory infections like...
Europa's icy crust may let more material into hidd...
New research shows that even smaller impacts can warm and soften enough ice on Jupiter's moon Europa...
