Science
Plants thrive in lunar soil with help from phospho...
The moon lacks the nutrients that plants need to grow, but adding three types of bacteria to a simul...
US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded $33.7 million to Lockheed Martin to help 'mature...
First practical use for nuclear fusion could help ...
Fusion reactors could be used to produce radioactive isotopes for hospitals way before they become u...
Endangered echidna not seen in 60 years caught on ...
An echidna named after David Attenborough that hadn't been seen by scientists in more than 60 years ...
Safety, not speed, should be the priority in launc...
With more space launches than ever, industry wants a way to speed up licensing after mishaps. But sa...
Detecting alien life might be easier if we hunt fo...
"If they're out there, this analysis lets us figure out where they could be living."
Painful fibromyalgia may be caused by the wrong ki...
Altering the gut bacteria of both mice and people either induced or relieved the chronic pain condit...
Stunning photo of rare Malayan tiger snapped by ca...
With fewer than 150 left in the wild, the Malayan tiger is rarely seen – but images from camera trap...
These small galaxies were shredded by their larger...
Using the Gemini North Telescope located near the Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii, the team behind the ...
Overly smooth eyebrows could give away fake passpo...
A composite image made from two faces can fool humans and AI, but unusually smooth eyebrows, which a...
Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think...
The quantum realm is full of strange effects, but there’s a reason why everything looks normal from ...
Frequently seeing friends and family may cut the r...
People who socialise regularly with friends or family live longer than those who never do, according...
Sea cucumbers surprise scientists with spectacular...
Ten sea cucumber species have been found to emit light for the first time, and researchers predict 2...
Hollywood strike ends – but actors’ battle against...
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended with an agreement that requires studios to get...
Watch NASA build its VIPER moon rover with these f...
NASA's first robotic moon rover is ready for final assembly and testing, and you can watch engineers...
Hummingbirds have two amazing ways to fly through ...
High-speed cameras reveal that hummingbirds fly sideways to fit through narrow openings, or fold bac...
Virgin Galactic to ground its VSS Unity space plan...
Virgin Galactic plans to pause flights with its VSS Unity suborbital space plane next year to ramp u...
Mars, Earth, or deep space? ESA narrows down final...
After a rigorous selection process, ESA has arrived at three medium-sized space mission ideas for th...
1st black hole ever imaged by humans has twisted m...
Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope show that the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...
Frank Borman, Apollo 8 astronaut who led first fli...
Former NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who in 1968 led the first mission to fly humans to the moon, has...
Powerful new thrusters for NASA's moon-orbiting Ga...
The propulsion system for NASA's planned moon-orbiting Gateway space station has been undergoing qua...
Astronomers have found the most distant black hole...
The most distant supermassive black hole confirmed is more than 31 billion light years away, and it ...
James Webb Space Telescope uses cosmic magnifying ...
The James Webb Space Telescope used a galaxy as a cosmic magnifying glass to find transient objects ...
Build your own AI-powered Perseverance Mars rover ...
A new robotics kit is coming for DIYers out there, but this one has an out of this world twist: It's...
Astronauts might be able to grow plants on the moo...
Microbes could help unlock vital nutrients in lunar soil to one day help farms sustain astronaut cre...
Physicists have invented a new way to shake a mart...
Shaking a martini glass back and forth creates an intricate vortex pattern in the cocktail that take...
Between Venus' atmospheric currents, a layer of re...
Scientists found atomic oxygen buried between two dominant currents in the hellish planet's atmosphe...
NASA’s robotic prospectors are helping scientists ...
Some companies hope to one day search for deposits that are literally out of this world — on asteroi...
2nd rocket booster lifted into place for space shu...
For the second time, the largest part of a space shuttle-era rocket booster has been taken vertical ...
SpaceX will launch the Space Force's mysterious X-...
U.S. Space Force's X-37B reusable space plane is set to take off on its seventh mission on Dec. 7, 2...
Greenland glaciers are receding twice as fast as i...
An analysis of archive photographs shows that the retreat rate of hundreds of glaciers around the co...
NASA's hunting for 'strategic minerals' in the des...
NASA is flying the agency's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft over the American Southwest in order to map ...
Peanut toothpaste shows promise at preventing alle...
A toothpaste that contains peanut proteins did not cause any serious side effects in people with an ...
Human eyeball successfully transplanted for the fi...
Aaron James received the first ever eyeball transplant during a 21-hour-long surgical procedure – an...
A satellite's very tiny camera took a very blurry ...
ESA's TRISAT-R satellite has a camera that's only about the size of a coin, yet it managed to captur...
September launch failure likely caused by 'electri...
Rocket Lab has identified an unwanted 'electrical arc' as the likely cause of its September launch f...
Artemis moon astronauts will need oxygen. NASA wan...
NASA wants to figure out how future moon-dwellers can produce, capture and store breathable oxygen f...
Highly effective weight-loss drug Zepbound approve...
A drug called tirzepatide and sold under the name Zepbound has been approved in the US and the UK fo...
