The moon has been slowly shrinking for millions of years. Now, as Artemis 3 nears its 2026 launch date, geologists worry about whether moonquakes and lunar landslides will impact landing. | Continue reading
A new paper suggests we may finally be able to uncover the identity of dark matter using the same technology that detects ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. | Continue reading
Researchers say the runic letters may spell "little sword," which could have been the name of the knife's owner or the knife itself. | Continue reading
The lunar lander's solar panels are now generating power, Japan's space agency says. | Continue reading
Prehistoric humans adorned themselves with different types of beads depending on their culture and location in Europe. | Continue reading
A small study suggests that "seeds" of Alzheimer's can be transferred from one person to another via certain medical procedures, leading to the disease later in life. | Continue reading
Organic matter found in samples of asteroid Ryugu suggests that ancient comets may be responsible for bringing the 'seeds of life' to Earth. | Continue reading
We think the universe is 13.8 billion years old, but could we be wrong? A new study of bound galaxies offers an unexplored clue. | Continue reading
The qubit attained quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, which an expert described as an "important milestone" in quantum computing research. | Continue reading
What was the typical life span of a dinosaur? It depends on the size and species, of course. | Continue reading
Take a trip through the maze-like valleys and canyons of a unique place in the solar system: Mars' 'labyrinth of night.' | Continue reading
Humans have all kinds of pets, but do any other animals have them too? | Continue reading
In this adapted extract, from Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes, volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer looks at the supereruption of Toba 74,000 years ago, and how our ancient ancestors might have witnessed this catastrophe. | Continue reading
Indian giant squirrels, with their extraordinarily colorful fur, are found in forests and woodlands of India. | Continue reading
Researchers uncovered fossils of multicellular eukaryotes that are over a billion years old. | Continue reading
The new LISA gravitational wave detector, which will be launched into orbit in 2035, promises to detect cosmic collisions from the earliest moments after the Big Bang. | Continue reading
Yes, we know the feeling of getting stuck in a rainstorm. But can we really sense the wetness on our skin? | Continue reading
The ground below the Icelandic fishing town of Grindavík is so fissured and unstable following the volcanic eruption earlier this month that it could collapse, officials have warned. | Continue reading
The robot faced up against grasshopper prey. But did the dinosaur it mimics actually eat insects? | Continue reading
Periods of cold and severe plagues overlap in a new study of ancient Roman climate. | Continue reading
The discovery of an ancient lake bed beneath the Perseverance rover's location on Mars could mean the robotic scout has already scraped up microbial fossils. But we won't know for sure until we fetch the sample. | Continue reading
A 500-foot-thick layer of pumice rock on the Mediterranean seabed indicates Santorini volcano ejected 15 times more material than Hunga-Tonga during a previously unknown eruption. | Continue reading
Tiny models of the human placenta are helping scientists study which proteins and genes are key to maintaining a healthy pregnancy. | Continue reading
Later this year, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission will send two spacecraft into orbit around Earth. By aligning the probes, researchers will create 6-hour-long mini eclipses, allowing the sun's atmosphere to be studied like never before. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that mutations in regions of the genome that help control gene activity may influence the development of autism. | Continue reading
The Beats Fit Pro are like AirPods Pro but for working out, and now you can get them for 20% off. | Continue reading
Mosquitoes are responsible for transmitting the flesh-eating bacterium behind "Buruli ulcer" to humans, new research suggests. | Continue reading
The Elysian E9X is a 90-seater plane that can one day travel up to 620 miles — and it's based on research that claims our previous assumptions on battery-electric aircraft were wrong. | Continue reading
Enormous holes on Antarctica's ice shelves appear to be linked with the formation of icebergs, study reveals. | Continue reading
The ill-fated Peregrine lander was carrying human ashes that would have marked the first private burial on the moon. But is sending your mortal remains to the moon legal, or ethical? | Continue reading
The presence of supermassive black holes in the earliest epochs of the universe has scientists stumped — but repeated explosions from tiny black holes may offer an explanation. | Continue reading
AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers. | Continue reading
Thousands of years ago, a Neolithic person tried cooking porridge but ended up burning it. | Continue reading
NASA's Ingeunity helicopter has finally ended its three-year mission on Mars after sustaining irreparable rotor damage on its 72nd flight over the Red Planet. It was only designed to fly five times. | Continue reading
Scientists spent years retrieving fossils of the Cretaceous sauropod, which they've named Sidersaura, or "star lizard." | Continue reading
The new black hole image offers further confirmation for Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. | Continue reading
Asteroid 2024 BJ, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will be live-streamed as it zooms within 220,000 miles of Earth, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon. | Continue reading
On Jan. 19, Japan's 'Moon Sniper' spacecraft made a successful soft landing on the moon. The landing was the most precise in lunar history; it was also upside-down. | Continue reading
Astronomers detected a small asteroid zooming toward Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 21, correctly predicting it would explode over Germany within hours. Here's how they did it. | Continue reading
A brief flash of green light was recently spotted coming from Venus in the night sky. The colorful shimmer has only been seen a handful of times before. | Continue reading
Get the Garmin Instinct Solar for under $230 at Best Buy. | Continue reading
The Best Buy deals keep coming with this high-powered 16-inch device available for only $1,699. | Continue reading
NASA's Curiosity rover spotted a rock formation on Mars that looks just like Star Trek's signature Starfleet symbol. | Continue reading
A bizarre object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope may be a pair of 'rogue' planets ― but a new study finds they are emitting radio signals rarely seen from other worlds. | Continue reading
Two new gene therapies show promise in treating otoferlin-related deafness, an inherited condition. | Continue reading
A collection of metal jewelry and human remains found at a dry lake-bed site in Poland were part of an ancient ritual. | Continue reading
A baby's increasingly long, frequent crying episodes turned out to be related to infant botulism. | Continue reading
The tangle is known as a trefoil knot — and it's made up of just 54 atoms. | Continue reading