Coolest Space Photos of 2025 Will Fill You With Cosmic Wonder

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our planet and our universe. [...]

Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots

Information from sensors is transmitted using neural-style activity spikes. [...]

Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen

The rocket's first stage may have exploded moments after it separated from the upper stage. [...]

Giant radar ‘umbrella’ launches into space on mission to transform climate science

The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space aboard a Vega-C rocket. The launch took place at 11:15 (CEST) today from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.  N [...]

What Is El Niño? Here’s What It Means for Weather, Water, and Global Economy

This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could get. [...]

The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit

Off-world agriculture has long seemed experimental, but that could soon change thanks to a collaboration between design firm Heatherwick Studio and the space architecture nonprofit Aurelia Institute. [...]

25 things that happen to your body when you stop exercising

From cardiovascular decline to mood shifts, here's what science knows about the real physical and mental cost of going sedentary [...]

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.' [...]

DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people

People in Picuris Pueblo wanted to know how they got there, contacted researchers. [...]