Science
Makenzie Lystrup stepping down as director of NASA...
Makenzie Lystrup will step down as head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Aug. 1. She'll be t...
Photograph the Perseids on August 12 with over $10...
The Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12 so be ready with the Sony A7R V, on sale for $3198 from...
Now is your last chance to watch the Marvel movies...
You can save over 40% on a range of Disney Plus subscriptions, which is perfect for catching up on M...
Nearly 300 NASA scientists sign 'Voyager Declarati...
Nearly 300 current and former NASA employees — including astronauts, engineers and scientists — have...
New 'Predator: Badlands' trailer confirms an unexp...
The second Predator: Badlands trailer is full of alien beasts, gorgeous sci-fi vistas, and a Yautja ...
NASA launching TRACERS mission to protect Earth fr...
The mission will blast off on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small satellites that will act as t...
Europe tests largest-ever Mars parachute in the st...
A giant parachute built for the beleaguered European ExoMars mission has aced a drop test in the Arc...
Crypto billionaire Justin Sun will fly on Blue Ori...
Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, is one of the six people who wi...
Night sky glows purple above Vera Rubin Observator...
The Vera Rubin Observatory in the Atacama Desert recalibrated under a purple night sky.
Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor nam...
Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth which may have helped ...
Hubble spots interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS f...
The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its ...
Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bow...
People who follow a gluten-free diet in the hope of it calming their irritable bowel syndrome may ac...
SpaceX aborts satellite launch 11 seconds before l...
SpaceX aborted the planned launch of two of SES' O3b mPOWER communications satellites just before li...
'Chaos' reigns beneath the ice of Jupiter moon Eur...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's ...
Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpec...
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice c...
Eclipse chasers share insider tips, travel advice ...
Our expert travel guide to the 2026 total solar eclipse in Greenland, Iceland and Spain is packed wi...
This new 'CosmoCube' moon orbiter could eavesdrop ...
U.K. scientists plan to send a small spacecraft to the moon's far side to detect faint radio signals...
NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet rolls out for i...
NASA recently took its new X-59 "quiet' supersonic jet for a drive during taxi tests, one of the fin...
These 3 popular skywatching star clusters may be b...
The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of ...
When did our solar system's planets form? Discover...
Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may ...
Four-day working week may boost our health and per...
Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that thei...
Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just l...
Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, suggesting they have a...
We've discovered a door to a hidden part of realit...
Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like th...
'Most impressive!' Darth Vader's screen-used 'Star...
Propstore will also trot out this rare relic for a 3-city press tour this August
Astronomers crack 1,000-year-old Betelgeuse myster...
Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery r...
ESA selects 5 rocket companies for European Launch...
Germany's Isar and RFA, France's Maiaspace, Spain's PLD Space, and UK-based Orbex have been pre-sele...
Amateur astrophotographer captures trio of breatht...
"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."
Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it i...
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was ...
Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS | Space ph...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to stud...
Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark...
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteri...
What are these strange swirls around an infant sta...
Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk o...
Earth will spin faster on July 22 to create 2nd-sh...
Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.
South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045
South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned const...
This wild bioplastic made of algae just aced a Mar...
Scientists have grown algae in bioplastic habitats under Mars-like conditions, a step that could bri...
Discover where the Eagle might have landed: How to...
Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope could discover 100,00...
Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover...
See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time ...
The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day ...
On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emer...
10 unique tours and experiences for the 2027 'ecli...
From "Star Wars" film sets to baboons in Saudi Arabia, here's how to experience the "eclipse of the ...
Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch ...
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA's ESCAPAD...
2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to ...
The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atm...
Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base i...
Astronomers discover strange solar system body dan...
Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rh...
Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning de...
Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to ...
Your chance of having a boy or girl may not be 50/...
We commonly think that sperm determines the sex of a child, depending on whether it carries an X or ...
The 2025 Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower is ...
The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.
Record-breaking high-altitude shot of sun's surfac...
"The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable."
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds': Jess Bush and Mar...
'I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible, so that a modern day Scottish person could see them...
Exposure to microplastic makes animals want to eat...
Over multiple generations, small nematode worms began preferring microplastic-contaminated food over...
Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the so...
Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil los...
