Science

Science • Jul 21

The world’s most expensive dinosaur may now be lost to science

Science News: A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Gus has sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby's in New York, becoming the most expensive...

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Science • Jul 21

How Viking Helped Shape My Career in Geology

The Viking project became my introduction to how spacecraft data are crucial for scientists to understand the geologic history of other planets and moons.

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Science • Jul 21

SpaceX Falcon 9 debris slams into Moon in early August with 3 tons of TNT force

An analysis has found that rocket debris, which entered Earth's orbit instead of burning up in the atmosphere after its launch in January last year,...

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Science • Jul 21

Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged

Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city.

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Science • Jul 21

In July 1962, a NASA engineer transcribing the Mariner 1 guidance code missed a single overbar above the letter R, and 293 seconds after launch the rocket veered off course over the Atlantic and had to be destroyed — a hyphen-shaped error that Arthur C. C

On July 22, 1962, Mariner 1 was destroyed 293 seconds after launch because a single missing symbol in its guidance code — a mark smaller than a grain of...

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Science • Jul 21

New quantum gravity theory links entropy, dark energy, and life

A new theoretical study offers a possible explanation for how the Universe can grow more complex without violating the second law of thermodynamics.

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Science • Jul 21

Detection Of A Four-Carbon Sugar In Interstellar Space

Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially...

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Science • Jul 21

MIT Scientists Grew Artificial Blood Vessels In The Lab Using Magnets

Science may one day give us a way to replace damaged and diseased parts of the body with artificial replacements – but reproducing organs and tissues in the...

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Science • Jul 20

Crescent Mars from Psyche

A series of overlaid images of Mars taken by NASA's Psyche spacecraft as it flew by the red planet between May 2 and May 15, 2026.

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Science • Jul 20

Astronomers Determine that Exoplanets Around Barnard's Star are Extremely Uninhabitable

Scientists have painted the most detailed portrait yet of the planetary system orbiting Barnard's Star. Unfortunately, the picture is not encouraging,...

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Science • Jul 20

One idea, two cosmic mysteries—linking Little Red Dots and globular clusters

A new study led by astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin proposes a theory that could solve two astronomical riddles at once: the nature of...

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Science • Jul 20

Falcon 9 abort at liftoff marks rare second anomaly in week

Rare T‑0 shutdown: Falcon 9's engines ignited but were shut down by the flight computer at T‑0, preventing liftoff and protecting the rocket and payload.

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Science • Jul 20

Largest male great white shark ever spotted near popular vacation spot

Shark Week is coming early to an East Coast tourist attraction. A week before the week-long Discovery Channel programming celebrates the popular predators...

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Science • Jul 20

New Metal Alloy Is up to 10 Times Stronger Than Structural Steel

A cobalt aluminum nanolaminate has shattered the usual tradeoff between strength and flexibility, emerging up to 10 times stronger than structural steel...

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Science • Jul 20

Earth’s Oceans Are Rapidly Losing Oxygen. It Could Destabilize the Planet

Oxygen, the element that sustains nearly all multicellular life on Earth, is disappearing from the world's aquatic ecosystems. In a new review,...

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Science • Jul 20

Mars’ desolate desert landscape captured by asteroid-bound NASA spacecraft

Watch a time-lapse video of the recent 'Psyche' Red Planet flyby.

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Science • Jul 20

‘Alien world chemistry' discovered in New Jersey meteorite kept quiet for years

Meteorite fragments recovered from a New Jersey home in 2024 held prebiotic molecules and other "building blocks of life," scientists revealed last week.

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Science • Jul 20

New web tool maps fossil locations across ancient continents in seconds

Calculating a fossil's position throughout geological history is a complex process. In paleontology and other disciplines, determining a location in the...

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Science • Jul 20

Scientists discover mystery molecule on Pluto and Saturn's moon Titan: 'We cannot say what it is'

Despite being separated by billions of miles, Saturn's moon Titan and the dwarf planet Pluto share an unexplained surface signature.

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Science • Jul 20

Scientists tracked endangered Australian cockatoos for three breeding seasons and found pesticides in 80%

Science News: Scientists tracking endangered Carnaby's black cockatoos across Western Australia's Wheatbelt over three breeding seasons found worrying...

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