SpaceX will launch the classified USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10), and you can watch the action live.…
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover are hanging up their spacesuits but not their access badges. The Artemis II commander and pilot have become the a…
A "forbidden" merger between two black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. New research that suggests the black holes involved we…
The Lasker Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 awards for basic medical research, clinical science and public service.…
European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot paid tribute to Star Trek’s real-world contributions to science and exploration by wearing Captain Pike’s Starflee…
A rare sighting of a bigfin squid near an underwater mountain off California is the first confirmed live observation of the bizarre animal in the northeastern P…
Using ALMA, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary, finding chaos that indicates they emerged from different backg…
A breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes equations could be worth a $1 million prize, but a mathematician has serious questions about how OpenAI got there so fast.…
A brand new observatory began its tenure on Aug. 30 — it's called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and it's equipped with a high-tech tool that can direct…
Scientists have identified a "climate teleconnection" between the Rocky Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, where warm spots left a kink in the jet stream that i…
Global warming will soon cross a critical threshold, surpassing a dangerous limit set years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. But …
The world's oldest known habitual drug use can be traced to an island in Indonesia, where ice age hunter-gatherers sucked on betel nuts — palm seeds that contai…
United States Space Command just held its first-ever "Apollo Maneuvers" exercise, which saw spacecraft maneuvering in orbit through simulated contested environm…
Researchers combined 100-plus images of a single black hole into an AI-powered video to chart the activity of a mighty blazar's jet.…
Anak Krakatau erupted, and satellites were watching.…
A new study looks at "consciousness steering" in AI, but could this technology actually achieve this level of self-awareness in the first place?…
On Sept. 9, 1982, the first private rocket, Conestoga 1, launched into space from a Texas cattle ranch. Here's why it mattered.…
Anthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone …
A photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang, the gamma-ray burst nicknamed "the BOAT," should not have reached Earth, according to Einstein. N…
Novel simulations, which reassessed the ancient collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia, suggest that the moon could have emerged from the aftermath o…
Love Guardians of the Galaxy? Get $14 off this Lego Marvel Baby Rocket's Ship at Walmart and make your own adventures. You'll have to hurry, though, this retire…
A man's intestines were perforated in an "exceedingly rare" medical case involving a live eel.…
Starting today (Sept. 9), skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere have a chance to spot one of the night sky's more elusive sights: the zodiacal light.…
China is making progress on its Tianwen 3 Mars sample-return mission, which aims to launch in 2028 and return a collection of Red Planet dirt and rock to Earth …