As space scales into daily infrastructure, which moments in 2026 will still feel new -and which will quietly change ...

Nicknamed “Cloud‑9,” this is the first confirmed detection of such an object in the Universe. The post Space scientists ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

On Monday, June 23, shortly after 9 pm UTC, hundreds of seeds, fungi, algae, and human DNA samples, many of which have never been exposed to space before, will make their maiden voyage aboard a SpaceX ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...

Right above you is the sky – or as scientists would call it, the atmosphere. It extends about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth. Floating around the atmosphere is a mixture of molecules – tiny ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm the ozone layer Dan Falk - Science Correspondent An illustration shows a ...

A team of scientists and sustainability experts is calling on space organizations worldwide to transition to a more sustainable space ecosystem. According to their report in Chem Circularity, they ...

The Egyptian-born El-Baz received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and geology from Ain Shams University in Cairo, received a master’s and PhD from from the Missouri University of Science and ...

"The range of possible outcomes is a lot wider than anybody has appreciated until now." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ...

It started with a poster on the classroom board of William Heinen, a biology teacher at St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California, that called for all students to participate in a ...

Fog shrouds the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photograph from February 25, 2025. Late last week the Trump Administration released its detailed ...