Science
Happy 20th, Spirit and Opportunity! How the Mars r...
Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars 20 years ago this month, kicking off a surface mission that re...
Why is the US still in such poor health, despite i...
A decade ago, a study showed that the US had the lowest life expectancy among high-income countries....
Electricity demand from data centres set to double...
The world needs more data centres to support internet activity and the AI boom. That could double th...
Four new emperor penguin colonies have been discov...
Satellite images have helped to locate four previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in the A...
Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space pro...
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) wants to declassify more space programs in order to bo...
Chinese astronauts check out newly delivered space...
Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have entered the newly arrived Tianzhou 7 cargo spa...
Limited edition Oreo Space Dunk cookies liftoff wi...
Oreo's latest limited-edition flavor, "Space Dunk," comes with an out-of-this-world twist: a chance ...
Stunning night sky time-lapse shows how colorful t...
This gorgeous eight-hour exposure reveals the colors of stars as they make their way across the nigh...
Artemis moon spacesuits prepped for tests ahead of...
Axiom Space will provide spacesuits for the first moon landing in half a century, aiming to reach th...
A bacterium switches from prey to predator when it...
Growing up at a different temperature seems to transform common prey bacteria into predators, sugges...
Reversing type 2 diabetes is much harder than clin...
People with type 2 diabetes who take part in clinical trials may benefit from professional weight lo...
Review: 'I.S.S.' is an old-fashioned thriller that...
A review of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite's new indie sci-fi film, 'I.S.S.'
See what the world looks like through the eyes of ...
A camera can recreate how animals see the world through both visible and ultraviolet light
Hubble Space Telescope sees colliding galaxies agl...
The spiral galaxies UGC 05028 and UGC 05029, collectively known as Arp 300, are in the process of me...
Nearby star factory shines in stunning James Webb ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on N79, a 1,630-light-year-wide star birthing complex i...
U.S. Government awards NOAA millions for wildfire ...
Millions of dollars invested in NOAA's Fire Weather research efforts will support wildfire preparedn...
Virgin Galactic may launch 6th commercial spacefli...
Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be just around the corner. The launch window for ...
NASA finally opens OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample cani...
After months of anticipation, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team has successfully accessed the treasure ...
Huge amounts of rock dust are being spread across ...
Companies around the world are spreading crushed rocks on farms to remove carbon dioxide from the at...
You can pay to have your ashes buried on the moon....
The question of sending your ashes to the moon is less a "can I?" one and more of a "should I?"
A new understanding of how your blood type influen...
We now know that there are at least 45 different blood types and that yours may influence your risk ...
Futuristic vertical-takeoff air taxi could fly by ...
The aircraft can cruise at 120 mph at an altitude of up to 1,500 feet — and it's much quieter than a...
Seaweed could save a billion people from famine af...
A nuclear war could lead to food shortages due to soot blocking out the sun, but a model suggests se...
Blue Origin joins 2 stages of New Glenn rocket for...
Blue Origin mated the two stages of its powerful New Glenn rocket for the first time recently, in pr...
Do routine check-ups actually improve our health?
A massive study is claimed to show that regular primary care health checks can prevent multiple dise...
Watch balloon-like space station module explode (o...
Sierra Space's latest deliberate explosion saw a futuristic space module prototype blow to pieces. T...
NASA's IMAP probe will launch in 2025 to capture i...
In the spring of 2024, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to capture minuscule dust particles streami...
Giant geomagnetic storm to slam into Earth, fuelin...
The sun's magnetic field could soon slam into Earth's, triggering stunning light displays.
Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours befo...
For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appear...
SpaceX wants to expand Starship launch site with a...
SpaceX's Starship launch site in South Texas may get bigger soon. The company has offered a land swa...
Chickpeas grown in moon dust for the first time
With a little help from a fungus and earthworms, chickpeas have been grown in lunar soil. It is a st...
Stunning slo-mo videos show how insects survive ra...
A raindrop can weigh 40 times as much as a water strider. So how does the insect deal with rain when...
It's been a 'wild' ride for the comet sampled by N...
Comet Wild 2 formed 4.5 billion years ago and is a relic of the birth of the solar system. In 2006, ...
An impossibly huge ring of galaxies might lead us ...
This galactic superstructure appears to us as it was over 9 billion years ago.
Not dead yet: Japan prepares for possible recovery...
The SLIM 'Moon Sniper' probe went silent shortly after notching Japan's first-ever lunar landing on ...
US Priority Mail stamps now feature James Webb Spa...
As light reaching the James Webb Space Telescope, it took between 6,500 and 7,600 years to be receiv...
How measles can do long-lasting damage to children...
Low vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in several countries, but many people are unawar...
