Science
SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket finally has a debu...
SpaceX is officially targeting May 19 for the debut of Starship Version 3, an advanced new vehicle t...
Uranus and Neptune could be full of rocks, new stu...
"Rather than 'icy' or 'rocky,' we should simply call them minor giants."
Cowboy Space raises $275 million to launch AI data...
The newly rebranded Cowboy Space Corp. will use the money to develop and operate AI data centers in ...
'Cannibal stars,' AI and the Rubin Observatory cou...
Using AI and Rubin Observatory data, scientists are rethinking Type 1a supernova "standard candles,"...
Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are ...
Don't miss Mars, Saturn and the moon form a cosmic...
The razor-thin crescent moon meets Saturn and Mars in the glow of the rising sun on May 14.
Watch SpaceX launch 6,500 pounds of cargo to the I...
SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station this evening (May...
NASA's Psyche asteroid probe will fly within 3,000...
NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to g...
Mesmerizing vortexes swirl near an Antarctic volca...
The arctic winds have created something truly stunning.
Star Catcher just raised $65 million to build the ...
Star Catcher Industries just raised $65 million to build a constellation of power-beaming satellites...
Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help...
Carbon credits bought by companies to offset their emissions really have reduced deforestation, but ...
A hidden wildfire pollutant causes thousands of ex...
Wildfire-derived ozone appears responsible for 2,045 excess deaths, on average, per year across the ...
PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a ...
PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who ...
SpaceX fuels up Starship V3 megarocket for 1st tim...
SpaceX has stacked and fueled the new version of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever, ge...
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in ...
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come...
NASA's Artemis 3 rocket is taking shape for 2027 l...
The core stage for NASA's Artemis 3 rocket has been raised inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, and...
'Nothing short of magical': Astrophotographer capt...
Dury captured shooting stars glowing with the Milky Way from the remote Scottish Island of Skye.
The story of the first human tool: the humble cont...
An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may hav...
Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy de...
A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts w...
Satellites spy one of Russia's most active volcano...
Fresh satellite images reveal volcanic heat melting snow around Russia's relentless Shiveluch volcan...
China's Tianzhou 10 freighter delivers 7 tons of c...
The Tianzhou 10 freighter delivered nearly seven tons of supplies to China's Tiangong space station ...
Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I...
The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João ...
How NASA lunar scientists taught Artemis 2 astrona...
The astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission that flew around the moon had to learn to describe th...
Watch SpaceX launch secret US spy satellites to or...
SpaceX will launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11), and you ...
Sun unleashes colossal solar flare and coronal mas...
An M5.7 solar flare triggered radio blackouts over the Atlantic.
See Artemis 2's amazing views of Earth in timelaps...
While making history on the first human moon mission in more than 50 years, the Artemis 2 astronauts...
New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal how m...
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — a...
Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only min...
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest hig...
Does Dante's Inferno from the 14th century depict ...
Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks...
'Pragmata' director Yonghee Cho on creating Capcom...
'Designing something new as a creator is incredibly exciting, but at the same time, it’s an extremel...
Total solar eclipse 2026 vs 2027 — Which one shoul...
From volcanic landscapes and a sunset eclipse to six-minute totality, here are the pros and cons of ...
Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for...
Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel...
4 epic myths hiding in the May sky — and how to fi...
Discover the tales behind four famous spring constellations.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 209 — Astronau...
On Episode 209 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Garrett Reisman and Steve L...
NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are very low on pow...
Voyager, the iconic twin spacecraft that NASA launched in 1977, are still flying in interstellar spa...
NASA's Artemis 2 commander and astrophotographer t...
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy partnered with Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman to create stunning...
A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the...
If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers ...
Pentagon unveils trove of declassfied 'UFO' videos...
The Pentagon released a new tranche of UFO files on Friday (May 8). Among the documents are nearly 3...
Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be c...
Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused ...
US government releases huge batch of UFO files
The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, som...
How you'd really die in space: What sci-fi gets ri...
What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you.
This is your best chance to spot the Milky Way's c...
See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky
Doubling their genomes may have helped plants surv...
Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extr...
Blue Origin tests 1st moon lander ahead of lunar l...
Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NA...
Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone ...
A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kil...
The charred hull of Artemis 2's Orion | Space phot...
NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to...
There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of se...
Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of...
