Science

Science • Jun 22

Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist

Astronomers have discovered a "remarkable" bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

Soviet spacecraft built to land on Venus in 1972 spent 53 years orbiting Earth and finally returned witho

Science News: A Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus in 1972 finally completed its journey more than half a century later, though not in the way its...

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

James Webb Space Telescope captures the star-forming clouds of Orion A

The Orion A region has never looked as colorful and vibrant.

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

Our sun is destined to 'kick and spit' its way across the solar system when it dies

Scientists have discovered that dying stars don't go down without a fight. New research suggests that when stars like the sun enter their red giant phase,...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

SpaceX ‘Starfall’ mission aims to test faster, cheaper way to bring cargo back from space

SpaceX's Starfall mission aims to revolutionize cargo return from space with a hockey puck-shaped capsule and parachute-assisted landing.

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals – and undermining trust in science

Several scientific fields rely on visual evidence to illustrate their claims. Inaccurate AI-generated images put the credibility of science at risk.

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

New psychology research finds a subtle link between speaking speed and politeness

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science provides evidence that the speed at which a person speaks is closely connected to how...

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding on thin rafts of melting ice pushed by a light wind

On a flat dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park, heavy rocks sit at the end of long grooves they have plowed across the mud. The trails run for tens of...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

For as much as 14,000 years, the aspen clone called Pando has spread across 106 Utah acres as roughly 47,000 trunks, 13 million pounds of wood and roots, and one male organism still trying to replace itself through shoots the deer keep eating

Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, covers 106 acres, weighs about 6000 tons, and has been cloning itself from one seed for an estimated 14000 years...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

7 Spectacular Stargazing Events To See This Summer

Summer 2026 in the Northern Hemisphere will see some of the year's best skywatching, from full moons to meteor showers, planetary displays and a rare solar...

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

Musk's original 2001 Mars plan was almost childishly simple: land a small greenhouse on the red planet to reignite public excitement for space, the seed idea that grew into SpaceX

Before SpaceX existed, Elon Musk spent late 2001 trying to buy refurbished Soviet missiles in Moscow to land a minibar-sized greenhouse on Mars.

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

ESA Astronaut Tests European Spacesuit Prototype Aboard ISS

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has tested a European spacesuit prototype aboard the ISS, while a second suit completed water survival trials in Marseille.

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

SpaceX is launching a secret spacecraft that could change how things are made in space

SpaceX launches its Starfall Demo mission from Cape Canaveral - a flat disk-shaped reentry capsule that can return 1000 kilograms from orbit, 30 times more...

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

June Bootids: Most chaotic meteor shower of 2026 to peak this week

Shooting stars from annual shower will produce 'slow' streaks across the night sky.

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

Strawberry Moon will soon light up the night sky. When to look up

The Strawberry Moon will soon illuminate the night sky, but don't expect the moon to look like an actual fruit. It will be the first full moon of summer...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

James Webb telescope detects 'galaxy-killing wind' near the dawn of time — and it could preview the death o...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that ancient galaxies lived fast and died young because of intense, collision-driven winds.

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

Could we actually terraform Mars? Scientists are trying to find out

Scientists have drawn up a research blueprint for assessing the viability of warming the Red Planet, outlining what it might take to make Mars a place in...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

James Webb telescope detects 'galaxy-killing wind' near the dawn of time

When galaxies collide, it's less like a train wreck and more like a marriage: Two separate entities merge into a single massive celestial structure.

6 0 0

Science • Jun 22

In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried a 35mm motion picture camera to an altitude of 105 kilometres, and the grainy black-and-white frames it brought back became the first photographs of Earth taken from space — years befo

"content":"On October 24, 1946, a 35mm DeVry motion picture camera bolted into the nose of a captured German V-2 rocket clicked through a single frame every...

5 0 0

Science • Jun 22

During the 1859 solar storm, telegraph operators disconnected their batteries entirely — yet messages kept flowing on the storm's own current as sparks showered from the machines and the paper caught fire

On September 2, 1859, telegraph operators George Wood in Boston and Frederick Royce in Portland unplugged their batteries during the Carrington Event and...

5 0 0