Astronomy

For the first time, artificial mouse embryos have started growing into early fetuses, but we are still a long way off making babies without sperm or eggs

For the first time, artificial mouse embryos have started growing into early fetuses, but we are still a long way off making babies without sperm or eggs

A nonprofit called The Earth Archive wants to make a 3D map of the entire planet, before the climate crisis changes Earth's face forever.

Meet the xEMU space suit—and a new suit for the Orion spacecraft, too

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Here's the reality: We're messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we're done with our own are wishful thinking.

The company’s constellation could eventually consist of 42,000 spacecraft

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Complete this questionnaire to find out what your “intolerance of uncertainty” is, and what that means for how you can better cope with life’s limbos

Complete this questionnaire to find out what your “intolerance of uncertainty” is, and what that means for how you can better cope with life’s limbos

Complete this questionnaire to find out what your “intolerance of uncertainty” is, and what that means for how you can better cope with life’s limbos

Complete this questionnaire to find out what your “intolerance of uncertainty” is, and what that means for how you can better cope with life’s limbos

Nature photographers and other

Big, schmancy compounds keep popping up all over the solar system, and new research may help clear up confusion about how they form in so many places.

Simulations help distinguish a cosmos containing fuzzy dark matter from one without it.

New photos give us the best-ever look at NASA's InSight lander on the surface of Mars and show the circuitous route the Curiosity rover is taking up a big Red Planet mountain.

Ancient tablets from the lost city of Iri-Sagrig are being recovered from smugglers. Now archaeologists are racing to trace it before it is completely ransacked

Ancient tablets from the lost city of Iri-Sagrig are being recovered from smugglers. Now archaeologists are racing to trace it before it is completely ransacked

Rocket Lab's Electron booster lifted off today (Oct. 16) from Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, carrying a technology-demonstrating satellite for California-based spacecraft manufacturer and operator Astro Digital.

Virgin Galactic lifted the curtain Wednesday (Oct. 16) on its new line of Under Amour "spacewear" for passengers on suborbital trips aboard its SpaceShipTwo vehicles.

Saharan silver ants only have 10 minutes a day to find food in the searing desert heat, so they have evolved to run at almost a metre per second

Saharan silver ants only have 10 minutes a day to find food in the searing desert heat, so they have evolved to run at almost a metre per second