Science
We forget details when our brain picks the wrong t...
Scientists have identified the brain mechanisms behind why we often misremember small details, such ...
The Orionid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here...
During the third week of October, the meteor display spawned by the debris shed by Halley reaches it...
NASA's Artemis moon astronauts may wear electric f...
NASA wants to put astronauts on the moon again in the 2020s, and lunar dust is expected to pose a ma...
A mud lake on Mars might be hiding signs of life i...
Martian biosignatures might be lurking in an ancient mud lake on the Red Planet, a new study suggest...
Why birds' eyes can be blue, green, pink or orange...
Among birds, eyes come in all sorts of colours – and it seems that this helps them compete for matin...
Do animals know that sex leads to babies?
The time delay between sex and offspring makes identifying the cause and effect a little complicated...
NASA tests new kind of Artemis moon-rocket engine ...
NASA wants to fly a better design of engine for its upcoming Artemis moon missions. The first of a 1...
Snake-like magnetic fields on the sun bring scient...
Magnetic snake-like energy patterns could bring scientists a step closer to solving a lingering sola...
Warm seas blamed for the disappearance of 10 billi...
The population of snow crabs in the Bering Sea has crashed since 2018, probably due to starvation as...
Emergence of huge cicada generation in 2021 led to...
The emergence of 'Brood X' periodical cicadas in the US in 2021 gave birds a new food source, leadin...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence gets ...
The Breakthrough Listen initiative has moved its headquarters to the U.K. to take advantage of the r...
IBM's brain-inspired chip could be the fastest at ...
An IBM chip that mimics the brain can run AI-powered image recognition algorithms 22 times faster th...
A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling ...
A huge burst of energy that has been travelling for more than half the age of the universe is powerf...
Record-breaking radio burst could help us find the...
An 8 billion-year-old Fast Radio Burst could help astronomers solve the mystery of the universe's mi...
James Webb Space Telescope spots jet stream on Jup...
The JWST's perspective on our solar system has offered us the 1st evidence of a superfast Jovian jet...
Astronauts embark on a surreal survival odyssey in...
An exclusive interview with Joe Bennet, co-creator and director of the new animated series "Scavenge...
Could Neptune's largest moon swing a spacecraft in...
Researchers have shared a radical new idea for how to put a spacecraft in orbit around Neptune: Use ...
Climate change will prompt expansion of farming in...
As the world warms, vast areas of wilderness in Russia, Canada and Alaska will become more suitable ...
Hurricanes are growing stronger much faster than t...
An analysis of all tropical storms in the Atlantic between 1971 and 2020 has confirmed that hurrican...
Ultra-powerful plasma 'blades' could slice entire ...
Stars could be sliced in half by "relativistic blades," or ultra-powerful outflows of plasma shaped ...
'Star Trek: Lower Decks' creator shares how to fin...
Space.com met with Mike McMahan, creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks at New York Comic Con 2023. He sh...
'99% totality' does not exist! Why you need to get...
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will come to the Americas. Only those on the path of totalit...
Virgin Galactic sets date, announces crew for 5th ...
Virgin Galactic's next trip to the edge of space will include some familiar names, such as planetary...
Hundreds of chatbots could show us how to make soc...
A newsfeed algorithm designed to counteract political polarisation could be effective, according to ...
Burned-up space junk pollutes Earth's upper atmosp...
Scientists have detected the presence of air pollutants from burning space junk in the upper layers ...
Wildfires burned a staggering 30% of Brazil's Pant...
High-quality satellite images show that the 2020 wildfires burned at least 2.2 million more acres (8...
UK’s global AI summit must provide solutions rathe...
Efforts to regulate artificial intelligence are gathering steam across the world, but some key ethic...
Queen guitar legend Brian May helps analyze NASA's...
Music legend Brian May has spoken about his role in the historic NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, which in S...
SpaceX aims to launch 144 missions next year
SpaceX hopes to launch 100 missions this year and ramp its cadence up to 144 flights in 2024, a comp...
NBC's 'Quantum Leap' hops back in time to investig...
A review of this week's 'Quantum Leap' episode, 'Closure Encounters,' which takes Ben Song back to 1...
India wants to land astronauts on the moon in 2040...
India plans to land astronauts on the moon by 2040 and build a space station by 2035, officials anno...
Space history and future leap off the screen at NA...
Guests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center can now see a space shuttle launch, a SpaceX Starship land on ...
Canada to launch new satellites to monitor climate...
The Canadian government promises it will get new satellites into space soon to extend its famous Rad...
Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert S...
It's hard to let go of the idea that free will exists, but neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says that ...
'Astronaut archaeology' could improve space statio...
New mysteries aboard the International Space Station came to light during a space archaeology projec...
Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it r...
Tall buildings made from electrically conductive materials can send lightning bolts up into the heav...
