"I think the answer is no, but there are some clever people around here," writes long-time Slashdot reader shanen, "so... "Is there any firewall or router or some other device that can adequately protect an old and no longer supported computer?" I have at…

Scientists identify quantum geometry as crucial to process. Researchers have produced new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy. In a study published on February 15, 2…

Scientists have discovered a way to reverse quantum time and even skip ahead in a massive breakthrough for the quantum world.

What are some skywatching highlights in March 2023? Following their close approach in the sky on March 1, Venus and Jupiter go their separate ways. Venus climbs higher each evening, while Jupiter exists in the morning sky at month's end. And those with binocu…

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada snapped a jaw-dropping picture of last week's aurora borealis from space aboard the ISS.

“We are living in an extraordinary moment in history,” says Didier Queloz, who directs ETH Zurich’s Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life and the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe at Cambridge. While still a doctoral student, Queloz was the first …

This week, explore the brain-powered computers of the future, go inside Dubai's camel cloning industry, meet a Jurassic-era bug, spy the ghostly remnants of an ancient supernova, and more.

The ESU wants to standardize a lunar time zone.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image that shows the same galaxy three times due to gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster that is 3.2...

The Canadian lunar rover could soon help reveal the moon's far side. The country's first moon rover is set to put the Canadian Space Agency at the forefront of space exploration, helping in the global search for frozen water on the celestial body.

What would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect it safely to prevent the impact?

NASA warns that a huge 1049-foot wide asteroid will be coming dangerously close to the Earth in just 10 more days. Is there a danger of an asteroid strike? Find out.

Newly discovered galaxies are scrambling our story of the universe.

My dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace

The sunspot AR3234 has exploded again, producing an X2.1-class solar flare eruption, reveals NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory.

We may at last be seeing a new way to solve the problem of dark energy.

The lava temperature was over 2,000 degrees.

Billions of years ago the average Earth day lasted less than 13 hours and it is continuing to lengthen. The reason lies in the relationship between the Moon and our oceans.

Astronomers captured images of asteroid 2011 AG5, more than a million miles from Earth.

New research sheds light on the chemical formation of the universe. An international team of researchers stumbled upon an exploding supernova in a distant spiral galaxy, using data from the first year of interstellar observation by the James Webb Space Telesc…

It's going to be used to fight climate change.

There will be 13 full moons in 2023, and the next one will occur on Tuesday, March 7. What to know about full moons, super moons and blue moons.

The European Space Agency is hoping to return its medium-lift launch vehicle to the pad by the end of the year.

"I was indeed shocked to see this."