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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 215 — Disclosu...
On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling ...
Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark...
A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Mil...
Late, great singer-songwriter Elliott Smith finds ...
An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34.
Do we need a lunar building code to build moon bas...
As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a l...
A private company will build and launch NASA's nex...
A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to o...
'This is not like life that we’ve experienced' 'St...
"I don’t have a relatable thing. This is not like life that we’ve experienced."
The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year p...
The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable showe...
Faecal transplant makes the brains of old mice act...
Older mice that received a faecal microbiome transplant from younger animals went on to have improve...
We've found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pl...
Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what...
Most portable air conditioners suck – but there's ...
Efficiency ratings on portable air conditioners don’t give consumers the full picture, and one type ...
'No one thought it was going to be possible.' A sp...
NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft ...
Menstruation in space will be studied for 1st time...
Maybe the next Sally Ride won't be asked the "100 tampons" question.
Annie Easley, a hero of NASA | Space photo of the ...
Easley was a human computer for the agency who helped with building the Centaur upper-stage rocket.
Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre
Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, s...
Want to start stargazing? Here's why June is the p...
Short nights and bright stars make the midsummer night sky surprisingly beginner-friendly.
Juicy new details emerge about an asteroid NASA's ...
Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which...
Can prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics help you...
The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columni...
Scientists trace high-energy ghost particle to the...
"If confirmed, Shadow Blaster would be the first-ever individual dusty star-forming galaxy directly ...
James Webb Space Telescope finds a salty surprise ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that one of the coldest exoplanets...
Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animal...
Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammal...
Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan af...
An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, ca...
Jared Leto's unreal Skeletor transformation for 'M...
'He was a joy to work with on set, he really was. He was a lot of fun and there was this charismatic...
Watch SpaceX launch new batch of US spy satellites...
SpaceX will launch the latest batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government early Friday morning (...
You can get my favorite image-stabilized binocular...
The Fujinon Techno-Stabi TS-L 1640 image-stabilized binoculars are perfect for steady stargazing wit...
Sun-like star may have swallowed an exoplanet with...
"That's what makes this field so exciting. You really are solving a mystery."
Astrophotographer captures a cosmic lagoon glowing...
The Lagoon Nebula is best spotted in the months surrounding August in the Northern Hemisphere.
These Mars valleys are hiding 30 dust devils | Spa...
Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devi...
Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supr...
Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first publ...
'It's quite a bit more than we expected': Satellit...
For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and ...
Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years l...
As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life mor...
Astronomers solve the mystery of black holes' dela...
A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving a...
NASA's Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on M...
Percy has now traveled more than 26.2 miles on the Red Planet! Could you?
Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge...
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from ...
Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries ...
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from ...
No young women have died of cervical cancer in Eng...
We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cas...
One of these twin stars has likely been snacking o...
Astronomers have discovered chemical differences between binary stars that indicate one has devoured...
Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain dam...
Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers extreme exopl...
Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world th...
'Warframe''s new Constellations update puts the fo...
With its latest major update, Digital Extremes makes space for old mechanics and new ideas in the co...
Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gathere...
DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, ...
Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are fly...
Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes w...
Our brains have their first thoughts surprisingly ...
By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly eve...
The 10 best sci-fi TV shows of the 2000s
From 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Lost,' to 'Fringe' and 'Invader Zim,' this all-star roster of sci-f...
Autism and ADHD are on the rise due to widening di...
A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD ...
A volcanic eruption seen from space | Space photo ...
Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano shot out lava for the 49th time that we know of.
Was life delivered to Earth by asteroids with a he...
Earth may have gotten some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system,...
'Best. Mars. Mission. Ever.' Scientists hail MAVEN...
NASA's MAVEN Mars mission ended after 11 years, having revealed how the planet lost its atmosphere a...
Stream Season 3 of Silo in safety, anywhere, with ...
Can't wait for Season 3 of Silo? Watch this post-apocalyptic smash wherever you are and stay safe on...
NASA discussing bold mission to boost Swift space ...
NASA will discuss an ambitious mission to boost the orbit of its Swift space telescope during a pres...
NASA X-ray spacecraft catches jet erupting from 1s...
"We could already see changes in the jet, but never with this level of detail in X-rays."
