Science
Ancient Mexico's solar calendar in the mountains i...
Ancient Mexicans closely watching the sun from only a single location accurately tracked the seasons...
Male wasps use spiky genitals to defend themselves...
Male mason wasps have no sting, but they have spines on their genitals that can cause a pricking pai...
Mars has enough wind to power bases near the poles...
An analysis of the wind energy available on Mars finds that one well-placed turbine could enable a g...
Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as ...
Marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs, which resembled whales and dolphins, seem to have gathered to g...
The creatures of Avatar & Avatar: The Way of Water...
As we return to Pandora in theaters, we learn a bit more about the distinct creatures, old and new, ...
Mammals were already poised to take over the world...
Ancient mammals were better adapted than nonavian dinosaurs to survive the Chicxulub asteroid impact...
Doom-spiraling exoplanet will someday meet fiery d...
Tidal interactions are pulling the exoplanet toward its demise: a fiery collision with its star.
Scientists trace fireball to strange rocky meteoro...
A rocky meteoroid that exploded over Canada last year was more extraordinary than it first seemed: i...
NASA's InSight lander just recorded its biggest qu...
A Marsquake detected by NASA's InSight lander in May this year was at least five times larger than t...
Countries agree landmark deal to halt global decli...
Nations have pledged to "reverse biodiversity loss" by 2030 at the COP15 summit, but campaigners say...
Rocket Lab delays 1st US launch due to unacceptabl...
Rocket Lab's debut launch from American soil will have to wait at least another day after high winds...
'Star Trek: 'Q and False' and Other Stories' exten...
Titan Books' new illustrated short fiction collection "Star Trek: 'Q and False' and Other Stories" f...
How was the universe created?
We don't really know how the universe was created, though most astrophysicists believe it started wi...
'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' trailer offers ...
Paramount Pictures releases debut trailer for next summer's "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts."
Watch Rocket Lab attempt its 1st launch from US so...
After years of launching rockets from New Zealand, the commercial space company Rocket Lab is ready ...
Nigeria, Rwanda become 1st African nations to sign...
The two countries are the 22nd and 23rd signatories of the NASA-led accords.
NASA cancels climate change satellite to monitor g...
NASA has canceled the GeoCarb mission, which was a greenhouse gas–monitoring satellite into geostati...
SpaceX rocket launch at sunset wows some stargazer...
When SpaceX launch two satellites into orbit Friday evening from Florida, it lit up the night sky wi...
South Korea's 1st moon probe Danuri begins to ente...
Danuri, South Korea's first deep-space exploration mission, arrived at the moon on Friday (Dec. 16),...
Watch SpaceX rocket launch on record-setting 15th ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for an unprecedented 15th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), and you c...
Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major bre...
American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal...
Look up! The Ursid meteor shower starts tonight (D...
A more low-key meteor shower than the Geminids, the Ursid meteor shower begins on Saturday, Dec. 17,...
Leaky Soyuz spacecraft tests thrusters at space st...
A leaky Russian-built Soyuz capsule at the International Space Station test-fired its thrusters on F...
COP15: How much money do we need to stop biodivers...
Several high-income countries have made pledges at COP15 to fund programmes to protect biodiversity ...
SpaceX launches 2 telecom satellites to orbit in l...
SpaceX carried out its milestone 200th orbital mission on Friday (Dec. 16), sending up a pair of pow...
COP15: What is the 30 by 30 biodiversity target an...
Under the 30 by 30 biodiversity target, countries would pledge to protect 30 per cent of land and se...
Rocket startup ABL Space Systems pushes debut laun...
ABL Space Systems has pushed the debut liftoff of its RS1 rocket to no earlier than Jan. 9, allowing...
See the 2022 FIFA World Cup from space in this daz...
The UAE's Khalifasat satellite caught a dizzying orbital shot of Education City Stadium in Qatar on ...
Perseverance Mars rover set to start caching sampl...
NASA's Perseverance rover is set to cache its first Mars sample in the next few days, kicking off a ...
Baby stars throw cosmic tantrums in iconic James W...
Scientists reexamining the James Webb Space Telescope's iconic "Cosmic Cliffs" image of the star clu...
Jupiter moons take center stage in bonus science f...
The Juno team got an unexpected opportunity to snatch close glimpses of some of Jupiter's bizarre mo...
Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t ...
A vaccine for strep A may not be very profitable for pharmaceutical companies and there are technica...
Soyuz capsule leak could strand 3 astronauts on sp...
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station is most likely unusable after a...
Gout linked to 376 genetic variants in a study of ...
As well as being caused by eating an indulgent diet, gout has been linked to hundreds of genetic var...
Nuclear fusion reactor 'breakthrough' is significa...
Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right dir...
NASA's DART asteroid smash flung 2 million pounds ...
The massive tail created by the collision of a spacecraft and an asteroid earlier this year is unloc...
Super rare pink and orange auroras surprise Norweg...
For the second time in less than two months, Norwegian skywatchers were stunned by extremely rare pi...
