Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from active astronaut duty after epic moon mission
The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.
6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world
Around 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest do...
How public–private partnerships can turn Mars into an economic frontier (Op-Ed)
No single agency — not even NASA — can develop all the technologies and systems needed for sustained Mars settlement.
Rocket test flight could be attempted from Shetland in August
Image source, SaxaVord SpaceportImage caption, A five-week "window" has been set for a potential test rocket f...
This 'ambitious' tree planting action plan is a first for NI
Image caption, Minister Muir said the first-ever tree-planting plan was "ambitious"ByLouise CullenAgriculture ...
'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab
By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.
China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa
China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa.
2,500-year-old tomb of a 'warrior prince' with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy's Adriatic coast
Archaeologists have excavated a royal burial ground of the Piceni, a mysterious pre-Roman civilization in Italy that is ...
Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe — each brighter than a trillion suns
A collection of newfound objects discovered by the Euclid telescope more than doubles the number of known quasars from t...
'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers for its Artemis progr...
Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera
A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks...
As Ice Melts in the Arctic, Some Deep-Sea Creatures Are Thriving
A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming pla...