Looks like Starship V3 might need a little more work before launching to space.

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering those factors could explain the origins of two unusual objects that collided

The quiet arrival offers another indication that the sun is moving into the declining phase of its 11-year cycle.

Around a third of American homes have a feline family member

A team of scientists have confirmed that a sample of moss was able to survive the harsh radiation of space.

It looks like something unnatural was in the sky in the months and years before Sputnik, according to one researcher.

Radiation can cause subsurface chemical reactions, which could act as “food” for some lifeforms.

New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters collide.

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could solve a cosmic mystery about the origins of extremely large black holes

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

“Does the world really need a 151st rocket company?”…

The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early 2026.

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms

“All that remained was the particular flat shape.”

Comets don’t just orbit our sun. “Exocomets” are common around other stars in the galaxy, too

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake

The newly discovered bonebed contained more than 800 vertebrate fossils, belonging to at least 17 species, including dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles and turtles.

Following its success with the second launch, Blue Origin plans to go bigger.

Enjoy it, because SWAN isn’t due back for another 22,554 years.

A review of dozens of studies hints that seeding biochar with iron fragments can mop up contaminants, stabilize nutrients, and lower farm emissions.

An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.

Why are exoplanets named with a combination of letters and numbers? A guide to exoplanet naming convention and a call for simpler names!

According to most models of how the universe works, matter and antimatter should have completely annihilated each other after the Big Bang. Yet, here we are.

During the Roman period, much of what is now Hungary formed the province of Pannonia

A James Webb Space Telescope image of the Red Spider Nebula shows the dying star at the planetary nebula’s heart and enormous lobes of gas.

E-fuels are going to be most useful in sectors like aviation and shipping.

Researchers use AI to identify new ‘intermediary roar’

An ancient group from central Argentina held on to their DNA, even with the exchange of culture and language.

Two new studies suggest that the semi-aquatic rodents provide food and habitat for bats and pollinator insects within their engineered ecosystems

The wriggly, copper-fanged marine worms could help advance the future of soft robotics, researchers say

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin said on Thursday it will build a bigger, more powerful variant of its New Glenn rocket, drawing early plans for a family of orbital satellite launchers akin to the fleet of Falcon rockets from Elon Musk’s dominant SpaceX.

After you close your eyes, there is actually a certain point that brain activity falls off sharply, plunging until it reaches a sleep state.

A new study strongly suggests that low doses of weight loss drugs like Ozempic can counteract aging in middle aged mice.

In 2024, superstorm Gannon generated auroras–and wreaked havoc on this radiation-blocking layer.

“The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors.”

The iconic, armored, 14-foot-long Dunkleosteus was something of an “evolutionary oddball,” a new study has revealed.

Findings may lead to new treatment for ‘lazy eye’

The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.

Inspired by molecular motion, they used vibrations to jolt water loose from sorbents, capturing droplets 45x faster than today’s tech, with minimal power.

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, effectively miniaturizing one of the most powerful tools in particle physics.

Bees obviously can’t use this skill on human level, but this progress could help scientists better grasp complex cognitive-like traits.

Botanist James Wong is constantly asked if he plays music to his army of plants. Time to put this notion to the test…

For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how they navigate our plastic-filled world.

Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others.

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide

Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals 

“The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden universe shapes the realms that we can see.”

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future

The dog may have protected its owners from bears.