2026-04-02
NASA launched the Artemis II moon mission on Wednesday, April 1—a date that will enable the crew to observe the moon pass in front of the sun from space
2026-04-01
Humans are the only species that has chins. A recent study sheds light on how that came to be and why evolution doesn’t always follow the rules
2026-04-01
A Wisconsin-sized region of frozen soil is thawing fast, releasing three trillion more gallons of water per year than it did just four decades ago
2026-04-01
A Los Angeles jury found Instagram and YouTube negligent in how they were built, opening a new legal fight over how courts view social media
2026-04-01
A daring 10-day voyage will take four astronauts on a loop around the moon and set the stage for future forays to the lunar surface
2026-04-01
A record warm winter meant that snow levels across the western U.S. were already low, but an incredible March heat wave has made things even worse
2026-04-01
Knowing how your eye optimizes vision could have big implications for the progression of nearsightedness
2026-03-31
Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the quantum world
2026-03-31
The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency
2026-03-31
Simpson’s paradox demonstrates how counterintuitive statistics can be
2026-03-30
The space agency is targeting Wednesday, April 1, to launch a crew of four astronauts on a potentially record-breaking journey around the moon and back
2026-03-30
NASA’s nuclear Mars mission, the Iran war’s carbon fallout, the looming climate cost of rebuilding and a hopeful new Lyme vaccine
2026-03-29
NASA is targeting April 1 to launch a crew of four astronauts on a journey around the moon that will set the tone for the agency’s lunar exploration ambitions
2026-03-28
Exercising self-control doesn’t need to be unpleasant, research shows
2026-03-27
During their 10-day mission, this four-person crew will swing around the far side of the moon—and potentially travel farther from Earth than anyone in history
2026-03-27
In 2017 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope zoomed in on a comet as it passed around the sun. And then things took a more unusual turn
2026-03-26
Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth
2026-03-26
Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security researchers say the underlying vulnerabilities cover the planet and are easy to exploit
2026-03-26
NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science
2026-03-26
Researchers put human sperm inside a uteruslike simulation under microgravity conditions. It did not go well
2026-03-25
New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light