Science
Desert plant collects water from air by excreting ...
An evergreen desert shrub common in the Middle East excretes salt crystals onto its leaves that may ...
Biden executive order: How the US is trying to tam...
US president Joe Biden has announced an executive order that establishes ambitious guidelines on saf...
Solar maximum will arrive sooner and last longer t...
The sun will reach solar maximum in 2024, one year earlier than predicted. It will not only peak ear...
James Webb Space Telescope dives deep into the Cra...
The James Webb Space Telescope has explored the Crab Nebula in more detail than ever before, hunting...
China plans to take 'hack-proof' quantum satellite...
China launched the first-ever dedicated quantum communications satellite to low Earth orbit in 2016....
'Star Wars' gets spooky in 'Tales from the Death S...
Space.com has a preview of Dark Horse Books' new horror anthology, "Star Wars: Tales From The Death ...
UK AI summit: Government testing chatbot for tax a...
Ahead of a meeting at Bletchley Park on the future of artificial intelligence hosted by UK prime min...
Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the d...
The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust, which blocked out ...
We can now only stay under 1.5°C target if we achi...
The amount of carbon dioxide we can still emit to have just a 50 per cent chance of limiting warming...
How we will discover the mysterious origins of lif...
Seventy years ago, three discoveries propelled our understanding of how life on Earth began. But has...
Watch China's Shenzhou 16 space station astronauts...
Three Chinese astronauts are set to return to Earth tonight after a five-month stay at the Tiangong ...
A nearby kilonova explosion could threaten all lif...
Collisions between neutron stars are the most powerful and violent events in the known universe. Wou...
How AI brought John Lennon back to life for the la...
The Beatles are set to release their last single, "Now and Then". The song was produced using musica...
Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden oce...
After analyzing some New Horizons images of Pluto, scientists found a supervolcano likely erupted on...
Partial lunar eclipse captured in stunning images ...
On 28 October, the full moon had a red tinge for viewers in the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa, created...
China's astronauts grow vegetables in orbit, with ...
China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts have been growing vegetables aboard the Tiangong space station, as pa...
You probably don't need 8 hours of sleep for a hea...
Largest analysis of brain scanning data yet suggests concerns about getting 7-to-8 hours sleep a nig...
The rings of Uranus are being held back by its pes...
Large amounts of dust are being expelled from the Uranus system to settle in the ecliptic plane and ...
Jupiter has a creepy 'face' in haunting Halloween ...
NASA's Juno mission captured a new image of Jupiter's far northern region, where the swirling cloud ...
Some insects disguise themselves as spiders to avo...
Several species of flies, moths and planthoppers look so much like their jumping spider enemies that...
SpaceX to launch 23 satellites tonight on 2nd half...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida tonight (Oct....
Space rocks and asteroid dust are pricey, but thes...
I use Moon and Mars rocks in my teaching and have a modest collection of meteorites. I marvel at the...
Astronaut Callie Rodriguez helps deploy a lunar te...
Astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues her space adventures in the NASA graphic novel 'First Woman: Ex...
World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 millio...
Scientists have created the world's first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which speeds negatively...
New map of ice on Mars could help NASA decide wher...
The NASA-funded SWIM project aims to detect where there's most likely water ice beneath Martian grou...
SpaceX to launch 22 Starlink satellites from Calif...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to launched 22 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Califor...
Full Hunter's Moon lunar eclipse, last eclipse of ...
A lunar eclipse visible to potentially millions of stargazers across the Eastern Hemisphere on Satur...
Full Hunter's Moon puts on a spooky display today ...
The Full Hunter's Moon lunar eclipse will occur today at 2:01 p.m. EDT (1801 GMT) and will be visibl...
NASA rocket to study star-forming supernova remnan...
On Sunday (Oct. 29), a NASA sounding rocket will study the life cycle of stars in the stunning Cygnu...
Drinkware with a twist of space history: New 'Mile...
Space enthusiasts, get out your favorite powdered orange drink, because a new set of Chop Shop glass...
Supermassive black hole seen spinning ropes of pla...
A supermassive black hole is spinning a 570-light-year-long, twisted rope at near-light speed — and ...
Infrared aurora on Uranus confirmed for the 1st ti...
After nearly 40 years of searching, astronomers have now spotted the infrared northern lights on Ura...
Gaza's phone and internet services have completely...
Palestinian telecommunications companies say that Israeli military bombardment of Gaza has cut off n...
'Deep learning' could shed new light on supernova ...
Scientists have turned to deep learning to speed up the simulation of supernovas, which could shed l...
The next 4 to 5 years will be 'most favorable' for...
Want to see the northern lights (aurora borealis) or the southern lights (aurora australis)? Good ne...
If Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics in its dis...
New research suggests the solar system's hottest planet, Venus, could have had Earth-like plate tect...
The moon will match up with Jupiter on Oct. 28
Jupiter will meet up with the moon on Oct. 28 in a stunning sky show. Then with a telescope, watch a...
Food waste in US landfills produces emissions equa...
More than a third of food produced in the US goes to waste. Most of it ends up in landfills where it...
UK Space Agency signs deal with Axiom Space for hu...
The U.K. Space Agency and Axiom Space have inked a deal that could see U.K. astronauts embark on a t...
