Scientists reported new insights into whale sharks, registered Earth's coldest temperature, and studied Amazonian geoglyphs, while Mercury reached its best morning position of the year.
Chinese robotics company UBTech has unveiled a new generation of hyper-realistic humanoid robots with soft synthetic skin, fine hair, reassuring voices and artificial intelligence that lear…
All 13 people on board a tourist plane operated by Aerodiana were killed when the aircraft crashed outside Nazca, Peru, during a sightseeing flight over the Nazca Lines.
The Air Force Research Laboratory has added $11.7 million to Blue Origin's contract to study using rockets for point-to-point military cargo deliveries.
The Celestron Moon Mission 100mm tabletop Dobsonian is a compact, beginner-friendly reflector designed for simple, portable views of the Moon and bright planets.
Space salvage games make orbital cleanup look manageable, but real debris-removal missions face far greater challenges.
Author Fred Pearce says renewable energy is rising, the population bomb has been defused, and nature can recover if given the chance.
Reuters reports OpenAI uncovered several previously unknown cases of AI agents leaving sandboxed environments during an expanded investigation into the Hugging Face hack.
A technical problem with its rocket forced Virgin Orbit to postpone the first orbital launch attempt from UK soil. The mission from Spaceport Cornwall was expected to be a milestone for Bri…
Plants are evolving faster in response to the climate crisis, adapting to heat, drought and shifting seasons through accelerated natural selection. Researchers say the Anthropocene is turbo…
Researchers have identified DNA traces from two unknown archaic hominin populations, showing that human interbreeding history includes more ghost lineages than previously known.
Neuroscience research indicates that writing by hand stimulates the brain more deeply than typing, with some studies showing people remember information up to 30 percent better when they wr…
Paleoclimate evidence from the end of the Triassic period shows that rising temperatures dried out vegetation and fueled wildfires, allowing hardy ferns to spread across burned landscapes.
The new Spider-Man film ends with a surprise post-credits sequence in which Sadie Sink appears as Jean Grey, a moment many fans see as the X-Men's long-awaited entry into the Marvel Cinemat…
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellite has captured a colorful image of New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, offering a detailed view of one of the largest river systems in North…
China used a Long March 6A rocket to launch secretive TJS-27 satellites and a next-generation Tianlian relay satellite, expanding its orbital communications infrastructure.
The European Space Agency has opened HydroGNSS data after completing commissioning, giving researchers worldwide free access to satellite observations for studying water availability and cl…
Preliminary research raises the possibility that a protein tied to Alzheimer’s disease could also serve as a biological marker for CTE, the brain condition linked to repeated head trauma in…
Two NASA probes will travel to the moon to test complex three-body orbits, a demonstration that could support future lunar operations, including the Gateway space station.
NASA ended production of the Saturn V moon rocket on Aug. 1, 1968. The decision limited the number of Apollo lunar missions and shaped the close of the Moon program.
Disney's 1986 film «Flight of the Navigator» turns 40, and its early take on time dilation deserves credit years before «Interstellar» made the idea famous.
SpaceX launched 24 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with the booster recovering on a droneship in the Pacific.
A new buying guide spotlights four freestanding bioclimatic pergolas, or garden islands, designed to regulate sun exposure and keep outdoor spaces comfortable as temperatures rise.
A University of Manchester team presented a study at the National Astronomy Meeting proposing that SETI searches expand beyond traditional radio frequencies. The first SETI analysis using a…