Science
'I have you now!': Darth Vader's lightsaber from '...
The winning bid for this screen-used prop made 'Star Wars' history last week... let's just hope the ...
Early Neanderthals hunted ibex on steep mountain s...
Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 yea...
Infrared instruments could spot exotic ice on othe...
Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscop...
James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star sh...
The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting acro...
Why simple tasks like charging your phone rely on ...
A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, bu...
SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view ...
One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airb...
Watch the winners of the ZWO Astronomy Photographe...
The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award 2025 will be streamed live online on Sept. 11.
I beat light pollution with this smart telescope —...
Don't let light pollution put you off stargazing or astrophotography, I managed to see galaxies, neb...
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 3 finale bl...
Telepathy, good vs evil, heroes fulfilling their destiny… If the "Strange New Worlds" finale 'New Li...
Hubble telescope spies glowing galaxy in a cosmic ...
Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a b...
Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find eviden...
We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evide...
Britain's economy thrived after the withdrawal of ...
An archaeological dig in northern England shows iron and lead processing continued and even increase...
Deflecting a deadly asteroid just got a lot less d...
Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we coul...
Watch Russia launch 2.8 tons of cargo toward the I...
A Russian Progress freighter loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo will launch toward the International Spac...
'Destiny 2' meets 'Star Wars' in ‘Renegades’ expan...
Destiny 2’s next chapter is bringing in themes and elements from a galaxy far, far away without brea...
SpaceX buys $17 billion worth of satellite spectru...
SpaceX just bought $17 billion worth of satellite spectrum from debt-ridden operator EchoStar to enh...
DNA cassette tape can store every song ever record...
By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, ...
Antibody cocktail could work as a universal flu tr...
A mix of three antibodies seems to protect mice against several strains of influenza and could one d...
Sci-fi is the genre of ideas — it shouldn't just b...
In an era when TV shows look like movies, have we lost sight of what should make sci-fi great?
Watch voice cast of Disney's 'Elio' learn about Vo...
Disney/Pixar's interstellar odyssey landed on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD for all Earthlings!
Even in our digital world, materials still matter
Next to the flashy realm of AI, materials may seem quaint. But new quantum research could yield revo...
Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu...
Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it for...
We evolved to match local micronutrient levels, wh...
Most human populations evolved to cope with low or high local levels of micronutrients such as zinc,...
Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking'...
An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational ...
NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet – but signs are...
A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on...
Which perimenopause treatments actually work?
For women going through perimenopause, there is no shortage of advice on how to deal with the sympto...
Tiny structure in the brain could be driving how m...
A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in ou...
Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing throu...
Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes...
Get ready to view Saturn at its closest point to E...
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ telescope is on sale for $367 on Amazon and is a great bud...
Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without ma...
If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a...
Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of anc...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ...
Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of E...
Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black ho...
SpaceX launches 1st 21 satellites for advanced new...
SpaceX launched 21 satellites to orbit from California today (Sept. 10), beginning the buildout of a...
Enjoy the new moon and Autumnal Equinox dark skies...
The Celestron TrailSeeker 8x42mm binoculars come highly recommended by our experts, and with a savin...
March 2026 total lunar eclipse: Everything you nee...
A total lunar eclipse on March 2-4, 2026, will be visible in North America and will be the last tota...
Working on a 39-foot telescope dish | Space photo ...
Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black h...
The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an e...
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — goi...
Iridescent mammals are much more common than we th...
It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow...
SpaceX targets Sept. 23 for launch of NASA's IMAP ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Sept. 23 will send three spacecraft a million miles from Earth to map th...
Astronomers discover repeating gamma-ray burst 'un...
A newly discovered gamma-ray burst is unlike any seen before, repeating over the course of a day rat...
Fossilized micrometeorites record ancient carbon d...
A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere wh...
‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest th...
An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti Mara landscape each yea...
'Directive 8020' is 'The Thing' in space, but is d...
Directive 8020 is shaking up the Supermassive Games formula for better and for worse.
How cosmic events may have influenced hominin evol...
Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neand...
'Artificial super astronauts': How AI and robotics...
In the not-too-distant future, "artificial astronauts" could fly as actual crew members on human mis...
You could help NASA track its Artemis 2 astronauts...
As part of the Artemis 2 astronaut moon mission launching no earlier than 2026, NASA is asking volun...
NASA to reveal new Perseverance Mars rover discove...
NASA's hosting a teleconference on Wednesday (Sept. 10) to discuss a new rock analysis from the Pers...
Is Earth’s climate in a state of 'termination shoc...
Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste...
Where is the sun in its current 11-year solar cycl...
Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cyc...
Astronauts capture amazing views of the total luna...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured great shots of the total lunar eclipse ov...
