Science
SpaceX, NASA targeting Aug. 15 for launch of Crew-...
SpaceX's seventh operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station now has a target l...
Robot injects drugs into back of eyeball more accu...
Retinal vein occlusion affects more than 16 million people worldwide and can eventually lead to blin...
Watch SpaceX launch 48 Starlink satellites today
SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit today (J...
Mars and Venus leave the night sky this month. Her...
Mars and Venus have been brilliant in the night sky for many months on end but will soon say farewel...
Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull
This intriguing extract is taken from Pod by Laline Paull, a novel told from the perspective of a sp...
Giving jaguars 'food poisoning' may stop them from...
Jaguar attacks on pets and farm animals are a common problem, but after developing a drug-induced st...
Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspec...
The author of the Women’s prize-shortlisted Pod reveals why she decided to write a story that initia...
Hungry black hold 'switches on' as astronomers wat...
Astronomers have witnessed one of the most dramatic "switching on" events ever seen as a distant sup...
Hungry black hole 'switches on' as astronomers wat...
Astronomers have witnessed one of the most dramatic "switching on" events ever seen as a distant sup...
Say goodbye to Europe's Ariane 5 rocket with these...
Europe's Ariane 5 heavy-lift vehicle is now officially retired, and the rocket's final launch on Jul...
Solar panels could be about to get much better at ...
Silicon-based solar cells have a theoretical efficiency limit of around 30 per cent, but adding a pe...
Breeding corn to boost yields has made it more vul...
As temperatures rise due to climate change, the huge amounts of corn grown in the US Midwest could b...
What would it be like to walk on an asteroid? Scie...
How would astronauts walk on an asteroid? With the potential to sink into killer "ball pits" or to t...
Director Valerie Weiss on her engrossing 'Star Tre...
Valerie Weiss chats about her acclaimed 'Strange New Worlds' episode for Season 2.
James Webb Space Telescope detects most distant ac...
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date,...
Astronaut shares stunning view of July's supermoon...
July's full Buck Moon — the first of four consecutive supermoons — rose on July 3, and an astronaut ...
SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 coll...
Exponential growth in Starlink orbital collision avoidance maneuvers in the past six months is spark...
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so mu...
Hum from onboard electronics that power SpaceX's internet-beaming Starlink satellites may disturb ra...
Melting Arctic glaciers expose new sources of plan...
Hundreds of groundwater springs have emerged at the base of retreating glaciers in Svalbard, and the...
Tooth analysis reveals ancient Iberian leader was ...
Molecular evidence has revealed that a person buried with lavish goods over 4000 years ago was femal...
Rare embryo mutations may increase risk of develop...
We know that genetic factors play the largest role in the risk of developing schizophrenia, but few ...
Reagan Library unveils statue of Sally Ride, debut...
Sally Ride now stands tall on the grounds of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Ca...
Early risers may be genetically less likely to get...
People who are genetically more likely to be active in the morning have a lower risk of experiencing...
India stacks moon lander, rover atop rocket ahead ...
India stacked its Chandrayaan 3 moon lander and rover atop their rocket ride on Wednesday (July 5), ...
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 episode 4...
In this week's episode of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' not only is there a throwback to the orig...
Happy Aphelion Day! Earth is at its farthest from ...
Earth reaches the farthest point in its orbit around the sun for 2023, called aphelion, on Thursday ...
This NASA probe has been revealing stunning moon v...
Over the 14 years since its launch, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has produced images and data pr...
When will Ariane 6 fly? Europe's new heavy-lift ro...
Ariane 6 may launch later this year to provide fresh European access to space, but it faces stiff co...
Crows can understand probability like primates do
When given the chance to peck on symbols that carried different probabilities of getting food, carri...
Farewell, Ariane 5! Europe's workhorse rocket laun...
Europe's Ariane 5 rocket launched for the final time today (July 5) after 27 years of service, sendi...
Quantum lidar could help driverless vehicles spot ...
Driverless cars can use lasers to sense objects, but reflected light from nearby vehicles or bright ...
Cosmic 'sandwich' theory could explain how smaller...
Do you want that toasted? A newly suggested planet formation process suggests smaller worlds could b...
Gravitational waves could help us find out how fas...
Gravitational waves from merging black holes distorted due to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein cou...
Having an 'overweight' BMI may not lead to an earl...
A large US study has found that being overweight but not obese carried a slightly lower risk of dyin...
Men and women's hands can be distinguished just fr...
Scent compounds released by your hands can be used to determine gender, which may be useful in figur...
Should all mathematical proofs be checked by a com...
Proofs, the central tenet of mathematics, occasionally have errors in them. Could computers stop thi...
El Nino is officially here and may cause temperatu...
The World Meteorological Organization has declared the onset of El Niño conditions in the tropical P...
Time appeared to move 5 times more slowly in 1st b...
Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed sl...
'Terminator 3': Average movie, fantastic ending
Twenty years on, 'Rise of the Machines' powerful and bleak conclusion remains one of the highlights ...
