Psychology suggests stargazing might be better for us than we realize
Step outside on a clear night in rural Ireland and the sky is just there. No app to…
Meet The Axolotl — The Salamander That Can Regrow Its Own Brain
The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival…
What Are the Closest Galaxies to Earth?
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. The observable universe holds…
Norway, facing an energy crunch, hunts for new solutions
Somewhere between Porsgrunn harbor and the wooded uplands of Lannerheia lurks a problem Norway can no longer avoid.…
Peak Milky Way viewing begins in Arab World
JEDDAH: The Arab world has entered a peak period for Milky Way observation, a window that will remain…
Saturn’s rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they’ll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all
The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according…
B.C. approved logging in threatened caribou habitat despite provincial recommendation against it
Mike James doesn’t know yet whether his first grandchild will be a boy or girl, but he hopes…
Europe launches a new mission to image Earth’s magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of solar storms is a 1995 spacecraft running 28 years past retirement — the gap between discovery science and operational continuity within a single agency
In a clean room in French Guiana, technicians are preparing a spacecraft called Smile — the Solar wind…
Spacecraft to probe how Earth fends off raging solar winds
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
Canadian Pacific cleared of all liability in Lac-Mégantic tragedy
Open this photo in gallery: Damaged rail containers and twisted wreckage on the main road through downtown Lac-Mégantic,…
NASA just put a 30-day clock on a $700 million Mars contract, and the deadline tells you everything about how scared the agency is of losing its relay orbiters before astronauts arrive
NASA’s Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement.…
Geologists drilled a very deep hole in West Antarctica and retrieved rocks that date back 23 million years, the deepest sample of its kind
Out on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a group of scientists spent weeks living in…