Science
Comet SWAN shines with the Pillars of Creation in ...
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was imaged in October as it crossed the galactic plane of the Milky Way.
Uranus may have more in common with Earth than we ...
The findings provide an answer to a planetary mystery that has bewildered scientists for nearly four...
Extremely Large Telescope under construction | Spa...
Once completed, this telescope will help usher in a new era of astronomy.
What the evolution of tickling tells us about bein...
From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re tick...
An industrial project in Chile threatens Earth's d...
"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of sta...
Australia's social media ban faces challenges and ...
As Australian teenagers lose access to social media, observers say there are still many unknown ques...
Hear dust devils on Mars crackle with electricity ...
For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere.
Why we only recently discovered space is dark not ...
For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark uni...
Did ancient humans start farming so they could dri...
New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition fro...
Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourf...
Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called...
China breaks record with 3 Long March rocket launc...
China just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for ...
The James Webb Space Telescope just found the olde...
The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.
This 7-hour cosmic explosion is the longest gamma-...
"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."
Chinese astronauts inspect damaged Shenzhou 20 spa...
Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed th...
2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in hum...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising di...
January full moon 2026: When, where and how to see...
Your guide to January’s full Wolf Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights.
1st human missions to Mars should hunt for signs o...
Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Re...
The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s ...
Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, bu...
Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made ...
Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists...
From Bezos to beyond: Blue Origin quiz
Whether you're a casual fan or a spaceflight enthusiast, see how well you know one of the companies ...
Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock ...
The time of day that cancer drugs are administered could make a big difference to a patient's outcom...
ISS astronauts watch Earth's atmosphere glow green...
The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow.
The audacious quest to light up the sky with artif...
How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis...
This supermassive black hole flung out matter at 1...
In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of light.
Startup announces 'Galactic Brain' project to put ...
Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an America...
Watch SpaceX launch mystery mission for the US mil...
SpaceX will launch a secret payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Dec. 9), and ...
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random num...
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of...
Astronaut and cosmonauts land on Russian Soyuz aft...
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky landed on Rus...
2025 is the second hottest year since records bega...
Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second h...
The Subaru Telescope just made its 1st discoveries...
Check out the first findings from the Subaru Telescope.
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record 32nd...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
One of the most promising Earth-like worlds may no...
New simulations suggest TRAPPIST-1e's possible methane atmosphere may be a false signal from its sta...
5 Terminator games that are actually good
Ahead of Terminator 2D: NO FATE, we're going back in time to find some Terminator games that don't s...
Scientists discover cosmic 'scar' in interstellar ...
"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving."
Odd elements in supernova blast might have implica...
Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, h...
Which exoplanet in the TRAPPIST-1 system could be ...
Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable pl...
Watch live: US Senate vote to appoint Jared Isaacm...
The U.S. Senate will hold its second hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacma...
How worried should you be about spending too much ...
Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But...
What supermoon am I? A lunar personality test
The supermoon shines brighter and bolder than usual—discover which dazzling lunar personality matche...
Northern lights may be visible in 17 states (and m...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming coronal mass ejection is expected to s...
What the family drama of interbreeding polar and g...
A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much t...
Uranus's small moons are dark, red, and water-poor...
…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected.
Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning
Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numera...
5 key takeaways from Jared Isaacman's 2nd NASA chi...
Private billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman appeared before a Senate committee Dec. 3 for co...
A green flash at sunset | Space photo of the day f...
This rare phenomenon is also called the green rim and it actually happens at every sunset.
Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has ...
Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for thos...
NASA spacecraft were vulnerable to hacking for 3 y...
An AI start-up has found a vulnerability in security software protecting NASA's ground control commu...
Sun unleashes intense X-class solar flare, trigger...
The powerful X1.1 solar flare from sunspot region 4298 sparked strong radio blackouts on the sunlit ...
Watch 3 astronauts head home to Earth from the Int...
NASA's Jonny Kim and two cosmonauts are scheduled to leave the International Space Station tonight (...
Are we living in a simulation? This experiment cou...
The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists...
