James Watson , who with Francis Crick revealed the double‑helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at 97. Their discovery, which also relied on data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, earned Watson, Cr...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn is scheduled to relaunch on Nov. 9, 2025 , carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mar...
This Week In Space Episode 185 features investigative reporter Josh Dinner outlining alleged budget and staffi...
Claim: A viral timelapse shows 16 hours of spinal‑cord development in a human embryo. Fact: The clip actually ...
The study reports evidence for a lymphatic-like network along the middle meningeal artery that may help clear ...
Excavations at Murayghat, a hilltop site near Madaba, Jordan, reveal a concentration of more than 95 Early Bro...
The Dresden Codex —a 78-page Maya manuscript from the 11th–12th century—contains an eclipse table covering 405...
A grandfather and his 5‑year‑old grandson found a 1.5‑inch fossilized shark tooth at Virginia Beach near 52nd ...
James D. Watson , who co‑discovered the DNA double helix in 1953 and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize, has died at 97. His work established the foundations of modern molecular biology and helped set the stage for th...
EscaPADE will send two small spacecraft on an unprecedented indirect route to Mars, using a “launch-and-loiter...
What happened: Just before 6:20 a.m. ET on Nov. 8, witnesses and cameras captured a bright fireball streaking ...
The solar system’s tallest mountains sit on moons, asteroids and planets beyond Earth, and many dwarf Mount Ev...
The USGS has launched the Cooperative National Geological Map, a free web application that compiles 100+ regio...
When: Around 10:00 p.m. local on Sunday, Nov. 9. The 72% waning-gibbous Moon will sit about 4.5° above bright ...
A controversial new paper led by Young-Wook Lee argues that accounting for the ages of type Ia supernova proge...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first test image revealed a previously unseen stellar stream trailing from Mes...
NASA and UC Berkeley are sending two identical orbiters, Gold and Blue , as part of the ESCAPADE mission to study how solar wind and magnetic interactions have stripped Mars' atmosphere. The probes will launch ...
Laika, a three-year-old terrier mix, became the first animal to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 19...
This roundup highlights key science stories: a meta-analysis finds fasting does not impair cognition in most a...
Sagittarius A* , the Milky Way's central black hole, has about 4.3 million solar masses but exerts negligible ...
The Mobile Agriculture Education Science Lab visited Nicole Smith’s third-grade class, giving 17 students hands-on experiments and lessons led by Cathy Vorisek. Children obser...
Researchers at France's CNRS suggest camelid-derived nanobodies — tiny antibody fragments about ten times smal...
Researchers led by Mir Faizal and Lawrence Krauss argue in a paper in the Journal of Holography Applications i...
Kepler was launched in 2009 to find Earth-sized planets and was retired in October 2018 after it ran out of pr...
Summary: The Space Race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union sparked major milestones — Sputnik 1 (1957), Laika and other animal tests, Valentina Tereshkova (first woman, 1963), Alexei Leonov’s first spacewalk...
A 6-year-old from Springfield, Massachusetts, raised roughly $1,000 to support a Harvard lab studying axolotl ...
Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: The moon’s gravity produces bulges in the oceans, atmosphere and even Earth’s c...
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist who has speculated that the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be artificial, says new observations show "non‑gravitational acceleration" a...
James Watson , who with Francis Crick revealed the double‑helix structure of DNA in 1953, has died at 97. Their discovery, which also relied on data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, earned Watson, Cr...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn is scheduled to relaunch on Nov. 9, 2025 , carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mar...
This Week In Space Episode 185 features investigative reporter Josh Dinner outlining alleged budget and staffi...
Claim: A viral timelapse shows 16 hours of spinal‑cord development in a human embryo. Fact: The clip actually ...
The study reports evidence for a lymphatic-like network along the middle meningeal artery that may help clear ...
Excavations at Murayghat, a hilltop site near Madaba, Jordan, reveal a concentration of more than 95 Early Bro...
The Dresden Codex —a 78-page Maya manuscript from the 11th–12th century—contains an eclipse table covering 405...
A grandfather and his 5‑year‑old grandson found a 1.5‑inch fossilized shark tooth at Virginia Beach near 52nd ...
James D. Watson , who co‑discovered the DNA double helix in 1953 and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize, has died at 97. His work established the foundations of modern molecular biology and helped set the stage for th...
EscaPADE will send two small spacecraft on an unprecedented indirect route to Mars, using a “launch-and-loiter...
What happened: Just before 6:20 a.m. ET on Nov. 8, witnesses and cameras captured a bright fireball streaking ...
The solar system’s tallest mountains sit on moons, asteroids and planets beyond Earth, and many dwarf Mount Ev...
The USGS has launched the Cooperative National Geological Map, a free web application that compiles 100+ regio...
When: Around 10:00 p.m. local on Sunday, Nov. 9. The 72% waning-gibbous Moon will sit about 4.5° above bright ...
A controversial new paper led by Young-Wook Lee argues that accounting for the ages of type Ia supernova proge...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first test image revealed a previously unseen stellar stream trailing from Mes...
NASA and UC Berkeley are sending two identical orbiters, Gold and Blue , as part of the ESCAPADE mission to study how solar wind and magnetic interactions have stripped Mars' atmosphere. The probes will launch ...
Laika, a three-year-old terrier mix, became the first animal to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 19...
This roundup highlights key science stories: a meta-analysis finds fasting does not impair cognition in most a...
Sagittarius A* , the Milky Way's central black hole, has about 4.3 million solar masses but exerts negligible ...
The Mobile Agriculture Education Science Lab visited Nicole Smith’s third-grade class, giving 17 students hands-on experiments and lessons led by Cathy Vorisek. Children obser...
Researchers at France's CNRS suggest camelid-derived nanobodies — tiny antibody fragments about ten times smal...
Researchers led by Mir Faizal and Lawrence Krauss argue in a paper in the Journal of Holography Applications i...
Kepler was launched in 2009 to find Earth-sized planets and was retired in October 2018 after it ran out of pr...
Summary: The Space Race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union sparked major milestones — Sputnik 1 (1957), Laika and other animal tests, Valentina Tereshkova (first woman, 1963), Alexei Leonov’s first spacewalk...
A 6-year-old from Springfield, Massachusetts, raised roughly $1,000 to support a Harvard lab studying axolotl ...
Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: The moon’s gravity produces bulges in the oceans, atmosphere and even Earth’s c...
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist who has speculated that the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be artificial, says new observations show "non‑gravitational acceleration" a...