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Scientists discover mystery molecule on Pluto and ...
Despite being separated by billions of miles, Saturn's moon Titan and the dwarf planet Pluto share a...
50 years after Viking 1's historic Mars landing, N...
NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a c...
'Stranger Things' at 10: The Netflix streaming ico...
Stranger Things changed the face of streaming, but it also had a significant impact on piquing the y...
Twice in a row: SpaceX rocket aborts launch at las...
SpaceX suffered its second last-second abort in a row this morning (July 20), this time during an at...
Four astronauts, 3 spacecraft, 2 weeks in orbit: A...
NASA's Artemis III mission is shaping up to be NASA's most complex mission in history, coordinating ...
Artemis II was an incredible reminder of our share...
The Artemis II astronauts reminded us that they considered it the honor of a lifetime to go to the m...
Get stabilized views of the cosmos with the Canon ...
This amazing pair of binoculars is almost 30% off their retail price on Amazon and we think they are...
Ancient sandstorm leaves behind wreckage on Mars |...
Remnants from Martian history stay scattered across the planet's surface.
Rocket launch costs have dropped 96% since 1960. H...
The costs of space launch have fallen 96% in the past six decades and have the potential to plummet ...
Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here'...
Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury...
In 1856, workers quarrying limestone in Germany’s ...
In August 1856, quarrymen in Germany's Neander Valley pulled 16 bone fragments from a limestone cave...
Astronomers just confirmed the first atmosphere ar...
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone for t...
An artificial 'Saturn's ring' of satellites could ...
A bright Saturn's ring of satellites will encircle Earth if plans to launch a million orbiting data ...
The UN’s new blue economy framework is not really ...
For the first time, governments will have to admit that their ocean policies are not separate—and th...
Every second, the Sun converts about 600 million t...
Every second the Sun burns through roughly 600 million tonnes of hydrogen, fusing it into helium in ...
In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and her graduate st...
In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a hydrated DNA fibre to X-rays for 62 hou...
'Aliens' at 40: James Cameron's sequel is a sci-fi...
Forty years ago, Aliens burst into our hearts, but this classic sequel nearly fell by the wayside du...
Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? S...
New research suggests AI can be repeatedly fooled into mistaking non-life for life.
How Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' turned gene...
As Nolan embarks on "The Odyssey", we look back on the sci-fi movie where time dilation is as cruel ...
10 places in the US and Canada to see August's par...
A partial solar eclipse by day and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower by night make Aug. 12, 2026...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black hol...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten a glimpse at the mechanisms tha...
Scientists told them, 'No, it's too dangerous,' bu...
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned spectacular images of a near-Earth asteroid following a super-...
Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-...
Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 219 — SpaceX G...
On Episode 219 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the space headlines for the p...
'We knew we had a lot to live up to': As 'Aliens' ...
Legacy Effects' Oscar-nominated duo Shane Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan share tales from the trenches o...
Beyond the Perseids: 6 meteor showers worth watchi...
The Perseids may steal the spotlight, but six lesser-known meteor showers could also light up summer...
In 1991, India’s foreign exchange reserves had fal...
In the last days of May 1991, chartered aircraft carried crates of gold out of India toward Zurich. ...
The blood-brain barrier lets glucose and ketones c...
The endothelial cells lining brain capillaries are stitched together by tight junctions only 4 nanom...
When researchers presenting at the Alzheimer’s Ass...
New research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference shows plasma biomarke...
In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named R...
In April 1967, Cubberley High School history teacher Ron Jones set out to show his class how ordinar...
A single cup of raw spinach delivers about 750 mil...
Spinach's oxalic acid is a genuine plant defense compound — one that binds calcium in the gut, cryst...
Astronauts lose roughly 1% of their bone mineral d...
Astronauts shed roughly 1% of their bone mineral density per month in orbit — more than ten times th...
Sardinian shepherds in the Ogliastra highlands car...
In Sardinia's Ogliastra highlands, shepherds carry a Y-chromosome lineage — haplogroup I2a1a-M26 — t...
NASA just paid three private companies $600 millio...
NASA has committed nearly $600 million to three commercial space companies for four robotic Moon lan...
Remembering 'Ulysses 31', the '80s cartoon that tr...
So much more than the earwormiest theme song in the galaxy.
These 'metallic' dunes on Mars look like sci-fi. W...
New images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter have captured strange-looking waves...
Rest and holidays, we assume, are what happiness i...
Ask people what would make them happier and the answer is usually the same: time off, fewer demands,...
The Perseid meteor shower starts this week. Here's...
The Perseid meteor shower begins on July 17 alongside two others, making "shooting stars" likely any...
'Aliens' at 40: Here are 26 reasons why James Came...
Sorry, "Predator", but four decades later, this is still the sub-genre's high watermark
Earth's largest particle accelerator opens new win...
According to one researcher, this observation "promises new insights into the evolution of the early...
Making history: Watch Vikram-1, India's 1st privat...
India's first privately built orbital rocket, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, will try to reach orbit ...
'The Starry Night' in space: Dark Energy Camera ch...
The Dark Energy Camera has captured a vibrant view of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, with the...
Smoke from devastating Canada wildfires visible fr...
Satellites have captured images of the billowing smoke.
In 2011, Peruvian geologist Andrés Ruzo followed h...
In 2011, geophysicist Andrés Ruzo confirmed a 6.24-kilometre stretch of the Peruvian Amazon's Shanay...
Margaret Hamilton was 32 years old when her Apollo...
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo Guidance Computer began flashing 1202 alarms as Eagle descended toward ...
The Perseid meteor shower is here! How to see the ...
The 2026 Perseid meteor shower is active from tonight and peaks alongside a dramatic total solar ecl...
The Mariana snailfish lives 8,000 metres down in w...
The Mariana snailfish thrives 8,000 metres down in water pressure that would crush a submarine — tha...
Astronauts just launched on a Soyuz rocket with an...
This week's ISS astronaut launch used a Soyuz rocket emblazoned with an ad for an energy drink. It's...
Are we underestimating the threat of solar storms?...
A new study suggests the most extreme solar storms to strike Earth could have greater impacts on sat...
The International Space Station loses about 100 me...
The 420-tonne International Space Station sinks about 100 meters a day through the thin upper atmosp...
