Astronomy

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025

Discover our week through the lens

The second big batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites will launch next Friday (June 13) from Florida, if all goes to plan.

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor

The Pococo Galaxy Star Projector is currently 28% off and will arrive in time for Father's Day — and you can get its lowest-ever price before Prime Day too.

The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in three distant settings.

A curious celestial phenomenon known as the analemma is a reflection of Earth’s orbit and tilted axis

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects

What happens when the U.S.’s most trusted source of extreme weather alerts can’t staff the night shift?

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder

June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.