Science
Mercury quiz: How well do you know the Swift Plane...
This quiz will explore the facts, the fun and the fascinating quirks of our solar system’s speedster...
How the nature of environmental law is changing in...
The effects of Earth's changing climate is driving up the number of legal suits related to environme...
NASA and Google test AI medical assistant for astr...
Google and NASA are trialing an AI-powered medical assistant that could help astronauts care for the...
Scientists just recreated the universe's first eve...
In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to l...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 173 — The Retu...
On Episode 173 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik look back at the week in space ne...
If everyone in the world turned on the lights at t...
Beyond powering lights, it's also important to think about where all that light would go.
Titan darkens Saturn in rare shadow transit on Aug...
The second largest moon in the solar system will cast its shadow over Saturn on Aug. 19.
Tiny devices propelled by sunlight could explore a...
"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we curr...
SpaceX aims to launch Starship Flight 10 test flig...
SpaceX is targeting Aug. 24 for the 10th Flight Test for its Starship rocket, following delays from ...
Blue Origin's 2nd New Glenn rocket launch will fly...
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket will launch NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission no earlier than (NE...
NASA wants new spacecraft to fly to hard-to-reach ...
NASA has awarded $1.4 million to six companies, to further their ideas about how to get vehicles far...
Russia to launch 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies on Aug...
Russia is readying its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite for a planned Aug. 20 launch. The mission will send...
X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with th...
Unexpected X-ray polarization challenges long-held ideas about how black holes behave.
It is impossible to build a practical quantum broa...
A quantum broadcasting system would end up sending slightly different information to every receiver ...
Canada's 1st commercial spaceport is officially un...
Canada's first commercial rocket launch is set for liftoff as early as the end of August as NordSpac...
Weird microbial partnership shows how complex life...
Connecting tubes between bacteria and a kind of microbe called archaea may reflect a symbiotic relat...
Every original 'Star Trek' character who has appea...
Going boldly where someone has gone before! The "Star Trek" prequel series is overflowing with chara...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 172 — Earth on...
On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika Alden D...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 171 — What's a...
On Episode 171 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Isaac Arthur are joined by Rick Jenet ...
Astronaut trades meditation for starry sky views i...
The members of Expedition 73-"B" settle in and get busy conducting science research on board the Int...
Whose moon is it anyway? A matching space quiz
In this quiz, you’ll test your cosmic knowledge by matching each moon to the planet it calls home.
Meet 'lite intermediate black holes,' the supermas...
There's a gap in black hole masses, and experts believe here is where 'lite intermediate black holes...
Oldest fast radio burst ever seen sheds light on e...
A bright flash of radio waves from 3 billion years after the big bang is illuminating parts of the u...
This baby star's big explosion fired back: 'Nature...
Astronomers discovered a star-triggered explosion shaping its dusty disk, revealing a far more chaot...
James Webb Space Telescope uncovers 300 mysterious...
Deep-field images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed 300 unusually energetic early gala...
We have detected a single electron with unpreceden...
An extremely precise detection method for single electrons, which pins down the particles with a res...
Milky Way and zodiacal light glow above telescopes...
The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observa...
Brain activity can predict whether strangers will ...
People who have similar neural responses to movie clips are more likely to become friends, indicatin...
Cancer-killing virus becomes more effective when s...
Virus-based treatments are already approved to treat several types of cancer, and combining them wit...
What if we've been thinking about dark matter all ...
Two exotic new theories suggest dark matter could be either made from tiny black holes or formed by ...
Was in cooked in space? A space food-themed quiz!
In this quiz, you’ll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. ...
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon ...
Recently, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reportedly suggested a U.S. reactor would be operatio...
NASA's new sun-studying mission 'PUNCH' attains it...
The four spacecraft of NASA's PUNCH mission have successfully locked in place in Earth orbit.
Extremely cold atoms defy entropy and refuse to he...
Adding energy to a group of ultracold atoms should make them fly away from each other with many diff...
Scientists created a new carbon molecule for the s...
For the first time in 35 years, scientists have analysed a new type of all-carbon molecule at room t...
TRAPPIST-1d isn't the Earth-like planet scientists...
As another world around TRAPPIST-1 shows no signs of an atmosphere, astronomers urge us not to give ...
New subtype of diabetes found in youths from sub-S...
In sub-Saharan African youths diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, 65 per cent do not have antibodies or ...
US Space Force's new deep space radar tracks multi...
The U.S. Space Force's powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in di...
Mind-reading AI can turn even imagined speech into...
A brain-computer interface has enabled people with paralysis to turn their thoughts directly into wo...
Discovery of 250 'mini galaxies' could help scient...
Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most t...
Why no one can agree on what quantum physics reall...
For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how ...
Blue Origin pitches new ‘Mars Telecommunications O...
Blue Origin has used its Blue Ring spacecraft platform to develop the Mars Telecommunications Orbite...
Trump signs executive order to boost commercial sp...
The executive order directs multiple federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spa...
SpaceX sends 28 more Starlink satellites into orbi...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday morning (Aug. 14), carrying 28 Starlink...
2024 saw a record-breaking number of dangerously h...
As the planet heats up, the atmosphere is holding more moisture – and this is resulting in more days...
2024 saw a record-breaking number of dangerously h...
As the planet heats up, the atmosphere is holding more moisture – and this is resulting in more days...
I tried to image the Veil Nebula but accidentally ...
As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain.
Living at high altitude may help ward off obesity
Children seem to be less likely to be obese if they live at high altitude, which may be due to its e...
Why Kirk's main character energy is bad news for '...
The future captain of the Enterprise eclipses his co-stars every time he appears in "Strange New Wor...
