Sometimes the people looking after a building get a little behind on maintenance. Sometimes the same thing happens to the people looking after the International Space Station....

A new study suggests the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was capable of swinging from tree to tree....

The last weekend of February begins with a bright full moon, the snow moon, shining in the sky. Catch the snow moon as it rises around nightfall on Friday, Feb. 26. When it's low on the horizon, the moon will look bigger than normal....

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In large part, it is impossible to have escaped notice of a rather large debate…...

Rock cores from Chicxulub crater contain elements associated with Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event...

Glaciers in Antarctica are turning the concept of “glacial pace” on its head. A new study of a little-observed area on the continent finds that rising heat is making ice streams flow faster, which has worrisome consequences for sea level rise....

Mechanosensing stem-cell niche promotes lymphocyte production....

You’re going to need some double-sided tape....

An international team of scientists led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the University of Aveiro shows that the heaviest black hole collision ever observed, produced by the gravitational-wave GW190521, might actually be something …...

A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios involving ‘normal’ matter, supermassive black holes could i…...

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China says its Tianwen-1 spacecraft has entered a temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of landing a rover on the red planet in the coming months....

A new Oculus Quest feature expands the headset’s Guardian mode by letting you mark your real couch as an object that’ll show up in VR. It’s the first time that the Guardian has worked as more than just a simple measure of floor space....

This coming October, four civilians are expected to launch in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will be commanded by 38-year-old Jared Isaacman, an accomplished pilot and the founder and CEO of Shift4Payments, a credit card p…...

SpaceX is preparing to rocket its latest Starship prototype tens of thousands of feet into the air as early as this week....

SN10 could fly as early as Thursday (Feb. 25)....

Stare at this gas giant long enough and you'll eventually have a blast....