A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off carrying Starlink satellites into orbit. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images SpaceX is moving over 4,000 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. An...
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispersâand this year, it heard the most energeti...
The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens. (Image credit: D...
Jupiter reaches opposition overnight on Jan. 10, when it appears its brightest in 2026 opposite the sun in Earth's sky....
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Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew OâToole | Carnegie Mello...
As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris....
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
The northern and southern lights have been treating sky watchers to spectacular shows. But what causes the colors, and why shouldn't you whistle at the aurora?...
A daylight peak and a full moon combine to sabotage the powerful Quadrantid meteor shower in 2026....
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Rippling's CPO said he prefers to understaff than overstaff all his projects. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Rippling's product chief Matt MacInnis says he deli...
I (17y/o) have been developing a rocket launch simulation that allows the user to explore what it's like launching a rocket from earth and putting it into orbit. This idea originally started as an edu...
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, could help make history with a new project unveiled on Wednesday, the Lazuli Space Observatory. As reported by Science , the telescope was announced...
The Hubble Telescope appears as a tiny silhouette during a perfectly timed solar transit captured from Puerto Rico....
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