NASA is planning to push the boundaries of space exploration with its new Nighthawk Mars helicopter, a cutting-edge mission ...

By Nadia Drake A robotic Soviet spacecraft has been adrift in space for 53 years. It will return to Earth later this week. Kosmos-482 launched in March 1972. If all had gone well, it would have ...

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

Twenty years later and armed with a faster camera, Wothe captured the magical moment a white-throated dipper crashed through a waterfall. The image (seen below) earned Wothe top honors at the 2025 ...

Chinese researchers have cracked a barrier to the home-grown production of advanced chips by building an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source platform that operates at internationally ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a distance of 6.8 million kilometres, it's a close call in cosmic terms.

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

If the launch proceeds as scheduled, the Falcon 9's first stage is expected to return to Earth for a controlled landing—likely on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. This reusable booster is part ...

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May 8, 2025 — A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not just those on the coasts, where relative sea level is a ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has dazzled humankind for 35 years. After launching ...