The Crew-9 handover has been delayed amid rumors that NASA could be planning to return the troubled Starliner spacecraft without its astronauts. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known arc-slicing fault in Australia, intensifying the debate over the origins of plate tectonics. | Continue reading
A new material can withstand 'billions' of electrical cycles without wearing out — and scientists say it could transform electronics within 10 to 20 years. | Continue reading
Look east before dawn on Wednesday, Aug. 14, to see the giant planet and the Red Planet just a third of a degree from one another in a rare planetary conjunction. | Continue reading
A massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail. | Continue reading
A 2,400-year-old pebbled mosaic unearthed in Greece contains images of two naked men with tails dancing to music. | Continue reading
Women with severe endometriosis are 10 times more likely to get ovarian cancer, while people with endometriosis of any severity are four times as likely, a study suggests. But patients shouldn't panic. | Continue reading
The CDC has clarified and narrowed its recommendations for which older adults should get an RSV vaccine. | Continue reading
The universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate — and tiny wormholes that bore through the fabric of space-time might be to blame, a new study proposes. | Continue reading
Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered. | Continue reading
Get a closer look with this huge saving on the Bushnell Powerview 2 10x42 binoculars — now down to their lowest-ever price $40.97 at Amazon! | Continue reading
China plans to launch more than 100 satellites for its new "constellation" this year and thousands more by the end of the decade. | Continue reading
A new analysis of teeth and a bone found on an Indonesian island reveal that "hobbits" were more than 2 inches shorter than we thought. | Continue reading
Two endangered female sharks found to be reproducing asexually in the absence of males in what appears to be a vital survival mechanism amid declining male populations. | Continue reading
By performing computations directly inside memory cells, CRAM will dramatically reduce power demands for AI workloads. Scientists claim it's a solution to AI's huge energy consumption. | Continue reading
Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia and the U.S. | Continue reading
A new study of sapphires found in volcanic fields in Germany reveals that these beautiful blue stones form where magma and rocks from Earth's crust mix. | Continue reading
Venom evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, creating a chemical arms race between predatory and prey. Here are some of the most venomous animals living on Earth. | Continue reading
A 2018 astronaut photo shows Nicaragua's active Momotombo volcano spitting out a cloud of toxic gas and steam just a few years after its latest eruption. | Continue reading
The wreck is the first time the remains of a pirate corsair have been found in the region known as the Barbary Coast. | Continue reading
New research shows that an injectable goo can repair cartilage damage in animals' joints within six months. Scientists are now developing the tech for use in humans. | Continue reading
"We give a definitive answer that meteorite impact vaporization is the dominant process that creates the lunar atmosphere." | Continue reading
The statue was created by the Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age culture that once inhabited what is now Pakistan. | Continue reading
We know that people in colder environments eat more calories. But why does our hunger abate in the heat? | Continue reading
Up to 75 'shooting stars' per hour may be visible as the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Sunday and Monday (Aug. 11 and Aug. 12). The annual shower is linked to debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. | Continue reading
Weather experts talk about why the film "Twister" is often such a favorite among tornado researchers and what they think of its new stand-alone sequel, "Twisters" | Continue reading
These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. | Continue reading
A Hawaii telescope just captured a sun-like star's glowing remains after it collapsed in a supernova explosion. The resulting butterfly-shaped nebula is a sight to behold. | Continue reading
Scientists found that two brain-made chemicals, including oxytocin, may play a role in increasing blood pressure after repeated periods of low oxygen. | Continue reading
Animals have been reproducing sexually for hundreds of millions of years, but not always like we do it. | Continue reading
New research could solve the mystery of how the complex building blocks of life first formed. | Continue reading
Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought. | Continue reading
The Pacific geoduck is a clam that lives along the shore from Alaska to Mexico, can reach 9 pounds in weight and can outlive humans. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency shared a high-resolution interactive image of central Paris highlighting several notable venues where the 2024 Summer Olympic games are being held from July 26 through Aug. 11, 2024. | Continue reading
If we can see at most 3% of the universe, how can we estimate the total number of galaxies in it? | Continue reading
"Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was thought that male trees uprooted themselves on stormy nights and walked to find female trees, embracing them to pollinate their large flowers." | Continue reading
Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates. | Continue reading
The coins were found beneath a home and were likely hidden by mercenaries. | Continue reading
A drug-resistant bacterium that causes severe infections has been spreading globally, and it's now in at least 16 countries, the WHO warns. | Continue reading
A tiny extinct penguin from New Zealand is key to understanding penguin wing evolution, researchers say. | Continue reading
Wildfires can generate tornado-like fire whirls and other "unpredictable and erratic" weather. An atmospheric scientist explains how. | Continue reading
Tanzania's outlandish Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, the only volcano on Earth that is currently erupting carbonatite lava, has been sinking at a rate of 1.4 inches per year for the past decade. | Continue reading
The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive. | Continue reading
The T Coronae Borealis nova will soon burst into life above our heads for the first time in 78 years. | Continue reading
Researchers say they've discovered evidence for the recently proposed 'law of increasing functional information' by proving that minerals evolve as life does. | Continue reading
The mummy was well preserved with an expensive embalming material. Her organs were still intact, showing an unusual mummification technique, a CT scan revealed. | Continue reading
The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this otherworldly landscape lie about 11 million tons of highly sought-after lithium. | Continue reading
What did Bronze Age people do with all that bronze? New research revives old arguments about the nature of money | Continue reading