Category: Science

Despite dozens of experiments over the years, scientists still don’t have a precise measurement for gravity’s strength. Why is that?

Northern lights are projected across the Northern U.S. and Europe tonight as Earth gets hit by a strong solar eruption.

The deep-sea octopus is fully mature despite fitting in a palm, a trait researchers think may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.

A very early study suggests flu antivirals might help reverse certain signs of accelerated aging in people with HIV. But more research is needed to

Scientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models’ training data.

Archaeologists are turning their attention and research skills to far-flung places on the Earth and beyond, discovering new information about how humans survive in extreme

A year after America’s first spacewalk, Gemini IX-A Eugene Cernan stepped outside his spacecraft for an ambitious extravehicular activity scheduled for 167 minutes. The challenges

I t was the dead of winter in Boston. The surface of the Charles River was frozen solid. But Zachary Kelso braved the biting cold

Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a remarkable body size because

A June update by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the coming weather event will be the strongest ever measured.

A brief leak scare on the International Space Station complicates NASA and Congress’ plans to extend the station’s lifespan to at least 2032.

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost

A shrimp vaccine for commercial use could protect the environment and prove vaccines aren’t just for vertebrates.

A close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time to look being