Science
Jackals may urinate on their favourite fruit to de...
Although they are carnivores, black-backed jackals are partial to the melon-like fruits of the !nara...
Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands b...
Projections of flood risk due to sea-level rise on the Samoan islands underestimate the rate at whic...
Bizarre fish can extend its mouth to make a kind o...
The hingemouth, an African freshwater fish, can stick out a proboscis for feeding or breathing thank...
FAA closes investigation into explosive 2nd flight...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has closed the investigation into the second test flight of...
Intuitive Machines' historic moon landing builds m...
Intuitive Machines just made the first U.S. landing on the moon in 52 years. NASA astronaut Tracy C....
President Biden congratulates Intuitive Machines o...
U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Intuitive Machines on making the nation's first moon landing ...
Two lunar landers have fallen over – but they’re s...
The SLIM lander and the Odysseus lander both set down on the lunar surface on their sides, but they ...
We finally know why live music makes us so emotion...
Hearing live music tugs at our heartstrings more than a recording, probably because it increases act...
How one of the smallest fish makes a sound as loud...
The drumming sound of the 12-millimetre-long fish Danionella cerebrum can hit 140 decibels – now sci...
Ingenuity Mars helicopter snapped rotor blade duri...
New observations by NASA's Perseverance rover show just how much damage Ingenuity sustained on its f...
Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyru...
Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatm...
It's alive! JAXA's SLIM moon lander sends home new...
Japan's SLIM moon lander started working again on the lunar surface despite extreme heat conditions,...
Zombie star earns metal scar while chewing its own...
A zombie star feasting on its surrounding planets and asteroids hasn't escaped the cannibalistic pro...
Gravitational anomalies reveal seamount 3 times th...
Researchers found and mapped four seamounts in the deep sea off the coast of Peru and Chile. The tal...
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander beams hom...
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander was the first private spacecraft to reach the lunar surface...
NASA's asteroid-impacting DART mission completely ...
When NASA's asteroid-diverting DART mission slammed into the tiny moonlet Dimorphos, it didn't just ...
Weird white dwarf star has a metal scar after eati...
Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf star with a patch of metal near one of its magnetic poles, wh...
Hard-to-digest starch supplements may help people ...
A small trial has strengthened the idea that foods containing the special form of starch could lead ...
Brash new 'Borderlands' trailer takes fans to the ...
A new trailer has landed for director Eli Roth's live-action "Borderlands" feature film starring Kat...
Where are all the exomoons? The hunt for worlds or...
Moons circling exoplanets would be some of the most promising places to look for life outside our so...
See February's Full Snow Moon light up the night s...
February's Full Snow Moon may have been the smallest full moon of 2024, but it had a big impact on m...
The mathematically perfect exoplanet system — a pe...
A newfound exoplanet system with six sub-Neptunes has piqued the interest of scientists who seek ext...
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe wakes up after s...
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX probe is back online after a two-month hiatus to protect itself during a close ap...
The Milky Way's enormous, star-studded 'Radcliffe ...
Scientists studied the Radcliffe Wave, a giant star-studded structure not far from our sun, to see t...
What is the big rip, and can we stop it?
Imagine a future where the universe, all too soon, tears itself apart. Eventually, space-time is tor...
Mathematicians discover 'soft cell' shapes behind ...
The mathematical study of how repeating tiles fit together usually involves pointed shapes like tria...
Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm ...
It may soon be possible to recreate the persona of someone who has died by training an artificial in...
Huge set of galaxies is set to form largest cluste...
Astronomers have spotted a gargantuan protocluster – the primordial beginnings of a galaxy cluster –...
SpaceX, NASA 'go' to launch Crew-8 astronaut missi...
SpaceX and NASA are officially go to launch their next astronaut mission to International Space Stat...
ISS astronauts witness 'spectacular' auroras from ...
ISS astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli caught some stunning auroras on camera on Feb. 15. From orbit, she sha...
James Webb telescope finds ancient galaxy larger t...
Astronomers believe the first galaxies formed around giant halos of dark matter. But a newly discove...
'A wonderful spectacle': Photographer snaps rare s...
A recent solar flare unleashed a massive plasma plume from the sun's south pole, where these stellar...
Artemis 2 moon astronauts will enjoy maple cream c...
The Canadian Space Agency has five menu items planned for the Artemis 2 moon mission that will lift ...
SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites from Flori...
SpaceX plans to launch 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida today (Feb. 24), on the c...
Do you want to spend a year inside a mock Mars bas...
NASA is seeking applicants for its year-long CHAPEA 2 mock Mars mission, which is expected to kick o...
India plans to include a helicopter on its next Ma...
India's next Mars mission may include a helicopter that follows in the footsteps of NASA's pioneerin...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 99 — Moonshots...
On Episode 99 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss the top headlines for 2024.
February's Full Snow Moon rises tonight, the small...
The full moon will appear a bit smaller in the sky tonight as the smallest full moon of 2024 rises w...
Is it time for moon laws? 1st private lunar landin...
Moon landings will continue to speckle humanity's future, and scientists are urging discussions of l...
