Frank Rubio and two cosmonaut crewmates return to Earth next Wednesday to wrap up a U.S. record 371-day stay in orbit.

Researchers have developed a new method to recycle plastics, such as those from milk cartons, food containers, and plastic bags, into soap. The method: Heat the long carbon chains in the plastics then quickly cool them. Researchers from Virginia Tech have dev…

Geneticists have for the first time isolated and decoded RNA molecules from a creature that died out long ago.

Recent research has found that these parasites can compel ants to climb up blades of grass when it's cool and to climb back down when it's too hot.

Though human-made ponds both sequester and release greenhouse gases, when added up, they may be net emitters, according to two related studies by Cornell researchers.

"Apple's Lisa Jackson joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 to provide an update on her efforts to make sustainability a focal point of the company's efforts, follow...

Science News: As the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) awaits communication from the Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover, the principal investigators have starte

A team of scientists has developed a novel way to measure variations in the Earth's rotation. In their paper published in the journal Nature Photonics, the team explains how their new approach works and how well it did when tested. Caterina Cimminelli and Giu…

WFST will survey the skies for fleeting astronomical phenomena and near-Earth objects.

A new study tries to capture the moment when humans learn their actions have purpose, also known as agency. Do infants really have it?

The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once seemed resistant to global warming. BBC: "It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blow…

In just over a year, NASA’s Artemis 2 rocket will take a trip around the moon. NBC’s Savannah Sellers sits down with Christina Koch, who is making history as...

NASA scientists are predicting a chance that asteroid Bennu will strike Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas.

The key to understanding the mystery of elusive dark matter could lie with the dark photon, a hypothetical dark sector particle proposed as a force carrier similar to the photon of electromagnetism.

Astronauts go through an episode of loss of bone density during extended microgravity missions. This is why there have been very few lunar landing missions in the history of space science. A quick loss of bone density is deemed life-threatening, and this has …

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.

Frank Rubio's first mission as an astronaut is the longest space flight ever for an American. Had he known he would be in space for over a year, he would have declined his mission.

The little chopper rose 66 feet (20 meters) above the red dirt during its Sept. 16 sortie.

The revolutionary field of bio-computing is making waves as DishBrain, a neural system combining 800,000 living brain cells, learns to play Pong.

When 17 people were in orbit around the Earth all at the same time on May 30, 2023, it set a record. With NASA and other federal space agencies planning more manned missions and commercial companies bringing people to space, opportunities for human space trav…

Researchers investigated the tiny marine animals called placozoans, revealing unexpected links to the evolution of neurons.

The latest version of NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling tech debuts this week with enhanced ray-tracing capabilities. Cyberpunk 2077 is the first game to employ it.

The Mars Technology Institute has been set up to pave the way for human exploration and advance technological developments to form a colony on the red planet.

Asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA intentionally hit with a rocket during its DART mission in September 2022, is behaving in unpredicted ways.

Researchers from Duke University might have discovered a method to neutralize them, potentially averting $220 billion in yearly agricultural losses. Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food supply employ a shared tactic to induce disease: …