Science
SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base i...
Chronic inflammation messes with your mind. Here's...
From depression to dementia, we are now realising the profound impacts of long-term inflammation on ...
How cocoa beans' microbiomes are key to the finest...
Nine species of fungi and bacteria have been found in cocoa beans that produce fine chocolate, and t...
Think you know our solar system's dwarf planets? T...
Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!
We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climat...
A report published in June found that the world only has three years before it crosses the 1.5 C cli...
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster will fly with fresh '...
Like birds returning to their nests, these feather-like grid fins help steer rockets back down throu...
Northern lights may be visible in these 15 states ...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Iowa as an incoming speedy solar wind could spark geomagnetic ...
Quantum device detects all units of electricity at...
Defining the fundamental units of electricity used to require two finicky quantum devices – but now ...
Rare 'triple-dip' La Niña may explain why 2023 was...
The record-breaking global temperatures seen in late 2023 may have emerged partly because of unusual...
Hubble telescope uncovers rare star born from cosm...
"It's a discovery that underlines things may be different from what they appear to us at first glanc...
Don't miss Mercury, the moon and the Beehive Clust...
A rare August morning alignment brings Mercury, a thin crescent moon and the Beehive Cluster togethe...
Jupiter's moon Ganymede could be a giant dark matt...
Large dark matter particles hitting Jupiter’s largest moon would form distinctive craters in its icy...
Covid-19 seems to age blood vessels - but only amo...
Women's arteries seem to be stiffer if they have had covid-19, with the same effect not being found ...
How Much Has Mercury Shrunk?
Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down ...
See a trio of spectacular star clusters brighten t...
The Hyades, Pleiades and Hercules star clusters make for excellent targets in the late summer months...
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...
