Space shuttle photobombs Earth for the final time, 15 years ago — Earth from space
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Over the BahamasWhat's in the photo? The space shuttle Atlantis, preparing to dock with the International Space Station...
This dinosaur fossil captures the final moments of a T. rex attack
A remarkable fossil at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies is offering scientists an unusually detailed glimpse into how Tyrannosaurus...
NASA's Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached a remarkable milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon (26.2 miles, or 42.195...
NASA selects four new Moon missions to build a permanent lunar base
NASA has selected three commercial space companies to carry out four new Moon missions in late 2028, marking another major step in the agency's...
Scientists discover why peach fuzz can suddenly make you itch
Researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered a previously unknown biological pathway that explains how certain touch-sensitive hairs...
Fans of the Arctic
Editor's Note: Today's story is the answer to the July Puzzler. Call it an alluvial face-off. On the southern end of Severny Island in the Russian...
Alan Turing's biggest AI assumption may have been wrong
Alan Turing's famous ideas about artificial intelligence may have sent AI research down the wrong path for the past 75 years, according to prominent...
New dark matter theory could solve multiple cosmic mysteries at once
Dark matter has long been one of astronomy's greatest mysteries. It cannot be seen or touched, yet its gravitational influence helps shape galaxies...
Yale scientists found a hidden network inside the eye
A new study from Yale School of Medicine (YSM) suggests that the eye processes visual information in a far more connected way than scientists had...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July
Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July...
Exercise doesn't just strengthen the heart. It rewires it
Regular exercise may benefit the heart in a way scientists are only beginning to understand. Beyond improving cardiovascular fitness, new research...
Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula
The Maya solar calendar is made up of 19 monthszimmytws/Getty Images An ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician has been identified for the first time...
NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides
No one wants to get into an uncomfortable aircraft. NASA research could help the emerging industry of air taxis —small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing...
Beluga whale live cam goes launches. YAY!
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SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: SpaceX sets target date for next Starship rocket launch
SpaceX targeting July 16 for Starship Flight 13The next Starship launch has arrived!SpaceX is targeting no earlier than July 16 for the next launch...
Russia's launching a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts to the International Space Station on July 14: Watch it live
NASA Astronaut Anil Menon Soyuz MS-29 Launch - YouTube Watch On Three people will launch toward the International Space Station on Tuesday (July...
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans
Clouds formed from vaporized rock could create the ultimate thermal insulation on one of the most common types of exoplanets discovered so far — the...
This T. Rex Fossil Could Fetch the Largest Sum of Any Dinosaur Ever Auctioned. Scientists Worry They'll Lose the Chance to Study It
This T. Rex Fossil Could Fetch the Largest Sum of Any Dinosaur Ever Auctioned. Scientists Worry They’ll Lose the Chance to Study It Bids on “Gus”...
5 'extremely rare' iron shackles discovered in France highlight Celtic slave trade 2,300 years ago
Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France — a discovery that suggests the small settlement...
Header goals are disappearing from the World Cup
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How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks
In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and...
Artemis 1's Orion Spacecraft Withstood the Heat of Re-entry in a Critical Test for Humans' Return to the Moon. Now, NASA Will Loan the Historic Capsule to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
Artemis 1’s Orion Spacecraft Withstood the Heat of Re-entry in a Critical Test for Humans’ Return to the Moon. Now, NASA Will Loan the Historic...
New paint-on health sensors are as fun as face paint
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The Largest Operating Steam Locomotive in the World Weighs 1.2 Million Pounds. Now, the Historic Train May Be Coming to Your Town
The Largest Operating Steam Locomotive in the World Weighs 1.2 Million Pounds. Now, the Historic Train May Be Coming to Your Town Built in the...
How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors
‘A lot of our images of prehistoric people are just too big’…Chuang Zhao This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the...
NASA begins stacking rocket ahead of 2027 Artemis III astronaut launch (photos)
The assembly of NASA's next Artemis rocket is well underway, with the recent arrival of one of the launch vehicle's solid fuel booster sections to...
SpaceX targets July 16 for Starship Flight 13, reveals what went wrong on previous launch
SpaceX is targeting this week for the next launch of its massive Starship vehicle.Following engine tests on both Starship stages in the last two...
Cancer Cases Are Expected to Nearly Double by 2050, Warns the WHO. Low-Income Countries Will Be Disproportionately Affected
Cancer Cases Are Expected to Nearly Double by 2050, Warns the WHO. Low-Income Countries Will Be Disproportionately Affected In a new report, the...
NASA Astronaut Anil Menon
NASA Astronaut Anil MenonNASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space...
NASA Astronaut Anil Menon
NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch...
Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time
Is there any sugar out there?NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al. Sugar molecules have been found in interstellar space for the...
Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna
Antonio Sortino In 1976, a British Army physician named H. Foster wrote a letter to the British Medical Journal about a pressing issue in European...
Sugar discovered floating in deep space for the first time
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Whether lefty or righty, practice makes the difference
Babies are born with a natural preference for using their left or right side. Now, a new study suggests that preference alone doesn’t explain the...
"The Ninth Jedi" is a bold new Star Wars anime project hitting Disney+ next month, and it looks sick! (trailer)
Disney+’s imaginative anime anthology series, "Star Wars: Visions", is getting a standalone expansion next month with "Star Wars: Visions Presents...
NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes
The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding...
Nearly 150 Gray Whales Have Been Found Dead Along North America's Pacific Shore This Year, Prompting Scientists to Sound the Alarm
Nearly 150 Gray Whales Have Been Found Dead Along North America’s Pacific Shore This Year, Prompting Scientists to Sound the Alarm The population of...
Extremely Large Telescope reaches a major milestone | Space photo of the day for July 13, 2026
ESO's Extremely Large Telescope shows off its impressive size after reaching a new milestone. (Image credit: ESO/Cimolai)The Extremely Large...
Losing just 80 minutes of sleep a night could make you gain weight
Getting a little less sleep each night may have a bigger impact on your health than you realize. Researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College...
Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves
People seeking shade in Paris on 26 JuneBenjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images A persistent kink or shift in the jet stream can trap warm air...
Baby seal gets a swimming lesson
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Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospace's coming bid to make spaceflight history
HYDERABAD, India — When Space.com visited Skyroot Aerospace's Max-Q campus here in February, the company's first orbital rocket, Vikram-1, was still...
A 200-year-old physics experiment could help build future computers
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a much simpler way to produce unusual light structures known as...
Meet the Milky Way’s puffiest planets
Meet the Milky Way’s puffiest planets These planets are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy A pair of newly discovered planets are the...
Scientists discovered the brain doesn't make decisions the way we thought
Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have uncovered evidence that could reshape how researchers think about both the brain and...
Space junk debris cloud discovered in high-traffic orbit 'is a potential minefield' for the costliest satellites
Tiny pieces of space junk only 2 inches (5 centimeters) in size are cluttering a valuable orbital region where some of the costliest satellites...
Game that reduces dementia risk clears amyloid from men’s brains
Beta-amyloid forms plaques in the brain (seen in yellow) that play a role in Alzheimer’s diseaseJUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy A...
Why are healthy young non-smokers developing lung cancer?
A diet packed with fruits, vegetables, and whole grains is widely considered one of the best ways to support overall health and reduce the risk of...
Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy
Magnetic resonance imaging scan of a vertical section of the head of a child with a glioma brain cancer (dark red, centre)MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO...
Stephen Hawking's black hole laws just got a major upgrade
Scientists have proposed a new way to describe black holes that could overcome a major limitation in one of Stephen Hawking's most influential...
Where you live could shape your dementia risk, massive study finds
A new USC led study of more than 214,000 older adults from 14 countries and regions suggests that preventing dementia may require different...
Elamite helmet with divine figures: A warrior king's 3,500-year-old bronze armor depicting a raptor and gold-plated gods
QUICK FACTSName: Elamite helmet with divine figuresWhat it is: A bronze helmet with gold decorationsWhere it is from: Southwestern IranWhen it was...
How Did Two Wolves End Up on This Remote Island Thousands of Years Ago? Researchers Think Humans Brought Them There, Then Cared for Them
How Did Two Wolves End Up on This Remote Island Thousands of Years Ago? Researchers Think Humans Brought Them There, Then Cared for Them The...
Reflect Orbital just got permission to launch its 1st space mirror to orbit. Tens of thousands more could follow
The first of perhaps tens of thousands of sunlight-directing space mirrors just got cleared for liftoff.California-based startup Reflect Orbital...
Physicists say quantum mechanics may not need imaginary numbers after all
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics that explains how matter and energy behave at the atomic and sub atomic scale. Developed in the early...
Scientists discover a hidden heart valve risk linked to gum disease
Bacteria that cause gum disease may do more than damage your teeth. New preliminary research suggests they could also contribute to the buildup of...
Wild, Scenic, and Increasingly Rusty
From declines in annual sea ice extent to the greening of the tundra, environmental change has been unfolding incrementally in the Arctic over...
Future moon landings could wipe out clues to how life began on Earth
Scientists are preparing for a new era of lunar exploration, but a new study suggests that every landing could leave behind more than footprints....
Spider-like creatures help uncover the surprising origins of fatherhood
Citizen scientists have helped researchers uncover how parental care evolved in harvestmen, a group of spider like arachnids, by contributing...
'The moon looked wrong': Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA's Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the moon in their Orion spacecraft, disappearing from...
AI is giving people bad money advice. Here's what I worry about most, as a finance professor.
Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her...
Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe
Space is incomprehensibly vast. So huge that the human mind struggles to even conceptualize it. The observable universe spans roughly 93 billion...
149 million views! Artemis II moon mission breaks NASA's streaming record
Nearly 150 million people shared in the "moon joy" of Artemis II on NASA channels, setting a new agency record in the process.NASA numbers indicate...
Alzheimer's tau protein has a surprising secret role in memory
New research has revealed that tau, a protein best known for its connection to Alzheimer's disease, is also essential for creating long lasting...
Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab
More than 50 years ago, physicist Sir Roger Penrose proposed a remarkable idea: under the right conditions, it might be possible to extract energy...
Deep-sea life has a secret food source scientists never expected
Scientists have uncovered an unexpected source of food in the deep ocean that could change how researchers understand both marine ecosystems and...
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tissue bioprinted off Earth for 1st time ever
A company just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called bioprinting, which 3D-prints living tissue.The...
Venezuela's devastating 'earthquake doublet' holds a warning for California's San Andreas Fault
The two major earthquakes that struck Venezuela just 39 seconds apart on June 24 had slightly different epicenters in north-central Venezuela. The...
Holding in your sneezes really can hurt you
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This ultrasound treatment may help stop arthritis before it starts
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new use for...
1 month until the total solar eclipse 2026 — Here's what you need to know
One month from today, millions will turn their eyes to the skies for one of the most anticipated skywatching events of the year: the total solar...
James Webb telescope captures never-before-seen glimpse of 'Centaur' galaxy's battle wounds — Space photo of the week
Quick factsWhat it is: Centaurus A galaxy (NGC 5128)Where it is: 11 million light-years away, in the constellation CentaurusWhen it was shared: July...
Was Einstein wrong about anything?
Albert Einstein gave us the theory of relativity, explained the photoelectric effect and predicted the existence of gravitational waves. He...
Scientists discover how the brain rewires itself to truly multitask
Researchers at Georgetown University have uncovered new evidence that the brain physically reorganizes itself as people master a skill, allowing...
Scientists finally solved the mystery of Earth's greatest mass extinction
A new Stanford led study has provided the strongest evidence yet for why some marine animals survived Earth's largest mass extinction while many...
Columbia scientists discover surprising link between serotonin and heart valve disease
Serotonin is usually associated with mood, sleep, and digestion. But research published in 2023 suggests this chemical messenger may also influence...
Why gold never tarnishes has finally been explained
Gold has long been valued for its brilliant, long lasting shine. Now, researchers at Tulane University have uncovered an important reason why the...
Yale scientists may have found how Parkinson's disease spreads through the brain
Parkinson's disease may spread through the brain with the help of two proteins found on the surface of motor neurons, according to new research from...
Common blood pressure drug could make cancer therapy far more powerful
A medication that has long been used to treat high blood pressure could also help make an important class of cancer drugs much more effective,...
Your lost dog can now call home with the world's 1st satellite-connected dog collar
Imagine you're on a hike in a remote mountain range. Your hyperactive dog catches the scent of a deer and, powered by his hunter's instinct,...
Sci-fi action movies were better in the '90s. 'Independence Day' is full of reasons why
We didn't realize it at the time — nobody ever does — but the '90s were a vintage era in Hollywood.It was a time when major studios were happy to...
Tropical forests stop absorbing carbon dioxide during El Niño events. This year could be the worst.
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores...
60% of medieval knight tales lost to time
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'Some people called it horrifying': 'Dinner with King Tut' author on using Egyptian mummification techniques on a modern-day human body
Most archaeologists spend time digging in the dirt or piecing together broken artifacts or bones in the lab, attempting to make sense of the past in...
'He looked like Ramses the Great': How experimental archaeologists used ancient techniques to mummify a modern-day person
In most areas of archaeology, excavators painstakingly dig layer by layer to reveal not just buried artifacts but also charred seeds, broken bones...
Experimental drug reverses severe fatty liver disease by repairing the gut
An experimental drug developed at Michigan Medicine has shown the ability to reverse severe fatty liver disease in animal studies by restoring gut...
Songbirds are in crisis as trappers and smugglers force them into lucrative bird-singing competitions
On a Sunday afternoon in April, the main minibus terminal in Sukabumi, Indonesia, looked sleepy from the outside. But in an open space round the...
Scientists warn invasive Asian mantises are threatening Europe's wildlife
Praying mantises have fascinated people for centuries. Across different cultures, they have been viewed as everything from mystical guides that help...
This electric field trick boosted heat flow by nearly 300%
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), working with The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation,...
3 myths about cursive handwriting
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Second pregnancy changes the brain in surprising new ways
A second pregnancy changes the brain in ways that are both familiar and distinct from a first pregnancy, according to new research from Amsterdam...
Science news this week: Time emerges inside a mini-universe, scientists thicken Arctic ice, and one of the oldest graves of a free Black person in the US found
This week's science news was filled with big discoveries from the world of the small, led by a physicist's creation of a mini-universe, which was...
White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead new UFO study group
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, a new...
Diagnostic dilemma: An 83-year-old man went to the hospital because of very itchy skin. It turned out he had a rare form of syphilis.
The patient: An 83-year-old man in BelgiumThe symptoms: The man sought medical attention at a hospital because the muscles on one side of his face...
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