Reasons why you should see the Snow Moon rise on Sunday 1 February 2026, the last high full Moon of this winter.

"[This study gives] us a better picture of what's going to happen in the future."

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of viruses – and possibly also into the origins of multicellular life.

Thomas Edison is well known for his inventions (even if you don’t agree he invented all of them). However, he also occasionally invented things he didn’t understand, so they had to be r…

The only way that bear cubs can learn to hunt effectively is by practicing their skills. Finding some baby prey that you can overpower is a great opportunity...

Aging muscles heal more slowly after injury—a frustrating reality familiar to many older adults. A UCLA study conducted in mice reveals an unexpected cause: Stem cells in aged muscle accumulate higher levels of a protein that slows their ability to activate a…

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University worked with the National Institute of Standards and Technol…

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of the landscape (the inland Karoo Basin) where most of the d…

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is ready to make history, with innovative spacesuits playing a critical role in the crew’s safety and success.

Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them to 'reappear'.

did you know the fastest flying animal in the world isn't a bird

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found the planet likely holds significantly more oxygen than the Sun, a key clue to how Jupiter—and the rest of the solar s…

We were talking on the podcast about rope. But not just any rope – especially non-stretchy rope for using in a mechanical context. The hack in question was a bicycle wheel that swapped out normal m…

DNA can be thought of as a vast library that stores all genetic information. Cells do not use this information all at once. Instead, they copy only the necessary parts into RNA, which is then used to produce proteins—the essential building blocks of life. Thi…

This week, researchers identified the role of the brain's protein clean-up system in dementia. Fecal transplants show promising benefits in treating multiple cancer types. And biologists found that saltwater crocodiles traveled thousands of miles across the I…

: Is there life on Mars? Well, there's Claude in the machine

Scientists sent a probe into the Sun’s atmosphere, and it came back with answers no one expected.

We live in a dark, dark, world.

Astronomers used an a custom-built AI tool to scour millions of Hubble images, uncovering the universe's overlooked curiosities.

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagia…

"Understanding how different materials behave as they burn up could help engineers design satellites that fully disintegrate, leaving nothing behind in orbit or in the atmosphere."

Scientists have shattered the diffraction limit, using continuous-wave lasers to resolve images at 0.1 nanometers.

NASA has selected Axiom Space for its fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2027.

Artemis seems to be NASA's primary focus.