Key points: Scientists sequenced the oldest-known RNA—from a 40,000‑year‑old juvenile mammoth named Yuka—using permafrost-preserved leg tissue. The team detected mRNA and regulatory microRNA that indicate activ...
True pitch-black regions in space are rare because dust and diffuse radiation produce a faint cosmic glow, and...
Updated Nov. 15, 2025: The Space Coast set a new tempo in 2025 with 98 orbital launches to date and a record 94th launch on Nov. 10. SpaceX accounted for the large majority of...
This week's science roundup covers several standout items: a rare triple solar eruption produced auroras visib...
Core Apollo (1960–1973) cost about $20.6 billion, rising to $25.8 billion with facilities and overhead—roughly...
Look up this weekend: The Leonid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 16 into Nov. 17, though activity runs f...
China has moved up the uncrewed Shenzhou-22 mission after damage was found on the docked Shenzhou-20 return capsule, state broadcaster CCTV said. The Shenzhou-22 flight will c...
NASA predicts the Leonid meteor shower will peak Monday morning, with a light display of about 10–15 meteors p...
Fossils from Seymour Island show that Antarctica, 40–50 million years ago, was warmer and ecologically diverse, hosting enormous pelagornithid “bony‑toothed” birds. These pelagornithids had jaw projections (pse...
What: SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 carrying the NASA‑partnered Sentinel‑6B satellite to monitor sea levels an...
Tennesseans saw a rare display of the Northern Lights after a powerful G4 geomagnetic storm pushed the auroral oval south. Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory director Billy Teets exp...
Dr. Sheila Nash Stevenson, raised in Lawrence County, Alabama, is the first Black woman in the state to earn a...
On Nov. 13 the Space Coast saw a rare day-to-night doubleheader: Blue Origin’s New Glenn — the 95th orbital la...
Stone tools from the Philippines, Indonesia and Timor-Leste show wear consistent with processing plant fibers ...
Key points: A team of ~175 astronomers combined Euclid optical and Herschel far‑infrared data to analyze ~2.6 ...
3I/ATLAS has reappeared after passing behind the Sun, with new images showing a single intact body and a prono...
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after their original capsule, Shenzhou-20 , was judged unsafe following a cracked window and was left docked at the Tiangong station. The crew returned in Shenzhou-21 ...
Three Chinese astronauts returned Friday after a week-long delay when tiny cracks were found in a window of their planned return capsule, likely from orbital debris. The crew ...
Spectacular auroras renewed interest in geomagnetic storms — bursts of charged particles and magnetic fields, ...
Spiders are essential predators: they control herbivorous insects and reduce disease risk. Researchers in Grea...
New research from UNSW suggests super-recognizers remember faces by instinctively focusing on the most distinc...
The only two dinosaur bones ever found in Ireland, unearthed by Roger Byrne on an Islandmagee beach in 1980–81...
The Leonids meteor shower peaks over Oklahoma the night of Nov. 16–17 , with dark skies (moon ~9%) and very fa...
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa team analyzed over 4,500 hours of passive recordings and identified roughly 2...
Key points: The Shenzhou 21 crew, which arrived at Tiangong on Oct. 31 for a six-month mission, is temporarily without a docked return vehicle after a Nov. 13 departure left the station with a different crew be...
SpaceX plans to launch a two-stage Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:21 p.m. PT on Sunday, Nov. 1...
Scientists have identified the Jinlin crater , a bowl-shaped impact depression about 900 meters across in Chin...
Summary: Researchers argue that a line in Ibn Sanāʾ al‑Mulk’s 1181 poem praising Saladin may record a bright n...
Key points: Scientists sequenced the oldest-known RNA—from a 40,000‑year‑old juvenile mammoth named Yuka—using permafrost-preserved leg tissue. The team detected mRNA and regulatory microRNA that indicate activ...
True pitch-black regions in space are rare because dust and diffuse radiation produce a faint cosmic glow, and...
Updated Nov. 15, 2025: The Space Coast set a new tempo in 2025 with 98 orbital launches to date and a record 94th launch on Nov. 10. SpaceX accounted for the large majority of...
This week's science roundup covers several standout items: a rare triple solar eruption produced auroras visib...
Core Apollo (1960–1973) cost about $20.6 billion, rising to $25.8 billion with facilities and overhead—roughly...
Look up this weekend: The Leonid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 16 into Nov. 17, though activity runs f...
China has moved up the uncrewed Shenzhou-22 mission after damage was found on the docked Shenzhou-20 return capsule, state broadcaster CCTV said. The Shenzhou-22 flight will c...
NASA predicts the Leonid meteor shower will peak Monday morning, with a light display of about 10–15 meteors p...
Fossils from Seymour Island show that Antarctica, 40–50 million years ago, was warmer and ecologically diverse, hosting enormous pelagornithid “bony‑toothed” birds. These pelagornithids had jaw projections (pse...
What: SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 carrying the NASA‑partnered Sentinel‑6B satellite to monitor sea levels an...
Tennesseans saw a rare display of the Northern Lights after a powerful G4 geomagnetic storm pushed the auroral oval south. Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory director Billy Teets exp...
Dr. Sheila Nash Stevenson, raised in Lawrence County, Alabama, is the first Black woman in the state to earn a...
On Nov. 13 the Space Coast saw a rare day-to-night doubleheader: Blue Origin’s New Glenn — the 95th orbital la...
Stone tools from the Philippines, Indonesia and Timor-Leste show wear consistent with processing plant fibers ...
Key points: A team of ~175 astronomers combined Euclid optical and Herschel far‑infrared data to analyze ~2.6 ...
3I/ATLAS has reappeared after passing behind the Sun, with new images showing a single intact body and a prono...
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after their original capsule, Shenzhou-20 , was judged unsafe following a cracked window and was left docked at the Tiangong station. The crew returned in Shenzhou-21 ...
Three Chinese astronauts returned Friday after a week-long delay when tiny cracks were found in a window of their planned return capsule, likely from orbital debris. The crew ...
Spectacular auroras renewed interest in geomagnetic storms — bursts of charged particles and magnetic fields, ...
Spiders are essential predators: they control herbivorous insects and reduce disease risk. Researchers in Grea...
New research from UNSW suggests super-recognizers remember faces by instinctively focusing on the most distinc...
The only two dinosaur bones ever found in Ireland, unearthed by Roger Byrne on an Islandmagee beach in 1980–81...
The Leonids meteor shower peaks over Oklahoma the night of Nov. 16–17 , with dark skies (moon ~9%) and very fa...
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa team analyzed over 4,500 hours of passive recordings and identified roughly 2...
Key points: The Shenzhou 21 crew, which arrived at Tiangong on Oct. 31 for a six-month mission, is temporarily without a docked return vehicle after a Nov. 13 departure left the station with a different crew be...
SpaceX plans to launch a two-stage Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:21 p.m. PT on Sunday, Nov. 1...
Scientists have identified the Jinlin crater , a bowl-shaped impact depression about 900 meters across in Chin...
Summary: Researchers argue that a line in Ibn Sanāʾ al‑Mulk’s 1181 poem praising Saladin may record a bright n...