Watch SpaceX launch classified mission for the US Space Force today
SpaceX will launch the classified USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force today (Sept. 10), and you can watch the acti...
August was joint hottest month on record, says European climate agency
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Tourists in Rome braved the heat of August, which has tied for the world's...
'America's Nobel' prizes go to sleep and hemophilia researchers, and to Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's advocacy
The Lasker Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 awards for basic medical research, clinical science and publ...
This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
A "forbidden" merger between two black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. New research t...
International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary
European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot paid tribute to Star Trek’s real-world contributions to science and explor...
Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern Pacific
A rare sighting of a bigfin squid near an underwater mountain off California is the first confirmed live observation of ...
'Why would you ruin your career?': OpenAI claims to have cracked one of math's greatest unsolved problems, but mathematicians allege it played dirty
A breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes equations could be worth a $1 million prize, but a mathematician has serious questio...
Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago
Using ALMA, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary, finding chaos that ind...
Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth
A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release...
NASA's newly launched Roman Space Telescope will 'directly' image exoplanets. But what does that mean?
"When you look up at the night sky, most of those stars have planets."
Record-breaking rain in California was caused by abnormally high temperatures on the other side of the world, study finds
Scientists have identified a "climate teleconnection" between the Rocky Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, where warm sp...
World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia
Hunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.