NASA's Moon astronauts will be using a new spacesuit to explore the lunar surface. Unfortunately, experts say, it has problems.

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a crew of astronauts around the moon.

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously believed.

Termites are among the most successful animals on Earth, forming vast societies that can number in the millions. But how did such complex social systems evolve from solitary ancestors that looked much like today's cockroaches?

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources."

Buried for 500,000 years, this enigmatic object is forcing researchers to rethink early human capabilities.

The structural and functional characteristics of mitochondria shape their role as signaling organelles, with far-reaching effects regarding immune responses, inflammatory processes, and diseases. A research team led by Professor Konstanze F. Winklhofer at the…

The smallest planet in our Solar System may be hiding a big secret.

Curiosity switched on its lights during the Martian night, capturing a rare view that is forcing scientists to look at the Red Planet in a new way.

De-synchronized electrical activity marks the loss of awareness.

Space scientists have long warned of an apocalyptic scenario: the collision of two satellites in Earth’s orbit, creating space debris that triggers a domino effect of further collisions, potentially rendering low Earth orbit unusable. This model of a chain re…

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and we die, in exactly that order. We plan our lives around tim…

Whether it's digging up weathered bones from a paleontological site or reexamining forgotten trays in museum and university collections, the study of dinosaurs still throws up something new.

The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in Italy.

A trio of ancient mesas is rewriting what we know about wind, sand, and deep-time geology, captured in stunning detail from space.

On January 15, 2013, I published a comprehensive textbook with my former PhD student, Steve Furlanetto (currently a tenured professor at…

Any time there’s dynamic change, there’s the opportunity for new ideas."

A new study suggests the world's oxygen-depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the centuries to come, despite our increasingly warming climate.

Is AI conscious? Anthropic's conflcited in-house philosopher is surprisingly open to the idea that they can already feel.

An open-source program helps researchers bypass a major bottleneck in the process chemical synthesis.

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that a major part of Greenland's ice cap, the Prudhoe Dome, was completely gone between 6,000 and 8,200 years ago.

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability density of the system or elements of the system. But for a …

The bulge first appeared in 1996 and has now returned, but Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says there's no cause for alarm.

James Webb Space Telescope observations of MoM-z14, an early galaxy that existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.