Science
Why a low-cost telescope is perfect this holiday s...
Five bright planets visible in the evening during Christmas week and beyond make an affordable teles...
The Ursid meteor shower, last 'shooting stars' of ...
The Ursid meteor shower peaks tonight (Dec. 22 into the morning of Dec. 23), offering the last shoot...
James Webb Space Telescope meets the 7 intriguing ...
A non-descript star, TRAPPIST-1, is host to seven Earth-size planets and the James Webb Space Telesc...
We saw the supermassive black hole at the centre o...
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope released a picture in May of Sagittarius A*, the black...
15 gift ideas for every stargazer this holiday sea...
The best space gifts for budding astronomers ahead of the holidays: Observing the night sky demands ...
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover just dropped its 1s...
NASA's Perseverance rover collected this tube's sample from a Mars region rich in organics. Scientis...
Gene therapy restored immune system in children wi...
Ten children with the rare condition Artemis-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency had their im...
James Webb Space Telescope back to science operati...
The newest, most powerful space telescope out there is back to work after a glitch blocked several d...
We could build space cities in asteroids like in s...
A futuristic study suggests that a spinning, rubbly asteroid could support a massive space settlemen...
Baby stars 'burp' in Orion Nebula after frantic fe...
Astronomers have observed elusive outbursts from baby stars cloaked within the thick clouds of gas a...
Many mosquitoes are now insecticide-resistant in V...
More than three-quarters of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes sampled in Vietnam and Cambodia were from strai...
NASA’s InSight lander has been declared dead after...
Over the course of its time on Mars, the InSight lander measured 1319 marsquakes, but it has finally...
Ingenuity Mars helicopter tests new software on 37...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 37th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), acing a hop designed ...
Blue Origin offers new bobbleheads of 1st New Shep...
The first women to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard have been honored with their own bobbleheads. Th...
NASA's Mars InSight lander ends mission after losi...
The Red Planet's harsh dust has claimed another spacecraft.
Super-absorbent towel soaks up liquids better than...
A hydrogel mesh made from vinegar, baking soda, glycerol and alcohol sucks up water three times as w...
Tracking CO2 emissions from space could help suppo...
The central objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit Earth's warming to well below 2 degrees Cel...
Stimulating the brainstem may make cochlear implan...
In a study in rats, artificially stimulating the locus coeruleus in the animals' brainstem quickly i...
First 'Barbie' teaser trailer parodies Stanley Kub...
Warner Bros. releases the first "Barbie" trailer in a nod to Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Russian space debris forces space station to dodge...
A piece of Russian space junk forced NASA to call off a spacewalk and the International Space Statio...
There's a new trailer for the sci-fi movie '65' an...
A new trailer for 65, a sci-fi action movie featuring dinosaurs where the past meets the future, is ...
The sun is waking up, and the world's largest sola...
With the world's largest solar telescope now conducting formal observations, scientists are eager to...
Shortage of pollinators could be killing 427,000 p...
Inadequate numbers of bees and other pollinators have a huge impact on human health due to lower pro...
Winter solstice 2022 brings the longest night of t...
The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Nor...
8 ways the James Webb Space Telescope is revolutio...
One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are trans...
Parasitic DNA makes us age faster - but we're not ...
Genetic parasites called retrotransposons become more active as we age, and an animal study suggests...
Twitter security flaw may leave videos sent in dir...
Videos sent in Twitter direct messages can theoretically be viewed by anyone, a weakness that could ...
Europe's Vega C rocket fails on 2nd-ever mission, ...
Europe's Vega C rocket failed during its second-ever mission on Tuesday night (Dec. 20), which was s...
It may be possible to traverse a wormhole and then...
When matter falls into a wormhole, the wormhole is expected to collapse – but a probe may be able to...
Small and speedy animals perceive time faster than...
A comparison of 138 species finds that dragonflies perceive changes in their environment five times ...
COP15 biodiversity deal is ‘new era’ for Indigenou...
The agreement made at the COP15 biodiversity summit balanced a recognition of the importance of Indi...
Two potentially habitable Earth-like worlds orbit ...
Astronomers have discovered two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf near our solar system tha...
Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct spacewalk early We...
Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk early Wednesday (Dec. 21) to install new solar arrays o...
Zero-G flight for disability ambassadors shows spa...
AstroAccess flew 14 individuals from 5 countries on a parabolic research flight Dec. 15, to open up ...
SpaceX aims to start launching next-gen Starlink s...
SpaceX will soon start launching a new generation of Starlink broadband satellites, which could help...
Strange arrangement of Milky Way's groupie galaxie...
Scientists may have explained the mysterious distribution of small satellite galaxies around our Mil...
NASA's InSight lander on Mars goes silent as power...
NASA lost contact with its Mars InSight lander on Monday (Dec. 18) after the spacecraft failed to re...
Shock wave from sun has opened up a crack in Earth...
A mysterious shock wave in a gust of solar wind has sent a barrage of high-speed material smashing i...
Salute Apollo 17's 50th anniversary with freshly r...
NASA restoration wizard Andy Saunders on Apollo 17's restored photos in his new book, "Apollo Remast...
