Astronomers have discovered that a 1000-light-year-wide “Local Bubble” surrounding the Sun and Earth is responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars. The study reveals that Earth and all of the stars and star-forming […]

Astronomers ended 2021 on a high with the launch on December 25 of the James Webb Space Telescope, but what else lies in store for space science this year? NASA’s Artemis program to send human […]

A priest, a rabbi and an imam are among theologians hired by NASA to examine how the world would react if life beyond earth was found on other planets. The US space agency NASA has […]

As a reminder that the universe just gets stranger and stranger the farther you get from Earth, here are 10 of the most awesome, extreme and enigmatic space structures discovered in 2021. This year, scientists […]

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope will probe the cosmos to uncover the history of the universe from the Big Bang to alien planet formation and beyond. It is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, […]

A new theory suggests that the universe perpetuates itself by constantly adapting its own physical laws over time. An autodidact is someone who has learned a subject without a teacher or formal education. Famous examples […]

Of all the year’s political drama, the most surprising may be the U.S. government’s actions on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs — better known as UFOs. The opening act came in June, when the Pentagon […]

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a way to peek inside of a butterfly’s chrysalis and record in real-time how their microscopic scales develop from start to finish. Butterfly wings have long […]

For the first time, a fusion reaction has achieved a record 1.3 megajoule energy output – and for the first time, exceeding energy absorbed by the fuel used to trigger it. Although there’s still some […]

The space rivalry between the U.S. and China is suddenly heating up after a top Chinese scientist said his nation may be able to send astronauts to the moon for the first time by 2030. […]

Scientific progress may accelerate when artificial intelligence (AI) will explore data autonomously, without the blinders imposed by human prejudice. Mainstream astronomers avoid funding the search for technosignatures, technology from extraterrestrial civilizations, by setting the unreasonable […]

Next year, planetary defense will take a big step, conducting its first experiment to deflect an asteroid. In late September or early October of 2022, the 1,210-pound (550 kilograms) DART spacecraft will slam itself into […]

Scientists have uncovered nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments in southern Mexico using an airborne laser mapping technology called lidar. Dating as far back as 3000 years ago, the structures—still buried beneath vegetation—include huge artificial plateaus that […]

Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist, enjoyed thinking aloud about the adventures science can offer. Gifted physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) was known as the ‘great explainer’ due to his ability to help non-scientists imagine something of the […]

With the right technology and solutions for living, Mercury could become a major settlement someday. While the thought of living, working, or visiting a planet like Mercury might sound like something out of science fiction […]

Expecting objects to have their own independent existence—independent of us, and any other objects — is actually a deep-seated assumption we make about the world. During the scientific revolution, the English physics pioneer Isaac Newton […]

Psychologists have found a way to communicate with lucid dreamers – people who can take control of their dreams – in the hope that they might help us explore what goes on with our brains […]

How to save humanity? Opposing grand approaches emerged from two remarkable scientists in the mid-20th century who fought each other their entire lives. Their solutions were so persuasive that their impassioned argument continues 70 years […]

Elon Musk’s firm is expected to launch the first full flight of the Orbital ship and its booster, sometime in the second half of this year. t could prove a big step forward for SpaceX’s […]

For more than 15 years, Virgin Galactic has been working to begin carrying paying passengers to the edge of space and back. In the early 1990s, celebrated aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan set himself a challenge: […]

The new Super-X divertor could be a game-changer for creating fusion power plants that can deliver affordable, efficient electricity. Initial results from the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) MAST Upgrade experiment indicate the effectiveness of […]

Here’s how firms like Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX are making sure visitors’ bodies can survive the trip. Companies like Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin are gearing up to send […]

China has achieved a new milestone in humanity’s experiments to harness the power of the stars. On Friday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) and […]

Some physicists claim information is the fifth state of matter. By 2245, half of Earth’s mass could be converted to digital bits. All the matter that surrounds us exists either as a solid, liquid, gas, […]

For too long, the scientific study of unidentified flying objects has been taboo. A big driver of that taboo is the vacuum of knowledge that is being filled by unscientific claims thanks to a lack […]

Covid-19 vaccines are the start of a new wave of genetic medicine—drugs that tweak DNA to keep us healthy. Both the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct our cells to […]

Quantum physics has the potential to redefine how computers communicate and ensure that no one could ever hack them. But many experts can’t see the finish line, let alone know when we’ll get there. It’s […]

The SpaceX Starship human lander will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as […]

Starlink is a global ISP built at ZERO COST to SpaceX, enabling NASA’s Artemis launch. There is lots of good news lately for SpaceX, especially NASA choosing the Hawthorne, CA-based company to build a $2.89 […]

With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about. One of humanity’s most enduring desires is the enchanting notion that we might […]