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....
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....
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Ancient DNA suggests people—and their dogs—migrated to the Americas more than 16,000 years ago...
According to a new study from the University of Copenhagen, Earth, Venus, and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The discovery opens up the possibility that the Milky Way may be filled with aquatic planets. Astronomers have…...
What remains of the star that exploded just outside our galaxy in 1987? Debris has obscured scientists' view, but two of NASA's X-ray telescopes have revealed new clues....
In a study published in the journal Science Advances, a team of European astronomers shows that water can be delivered to a terrestrial planet in the form of ‘pebble snow’ in the early phases of the planet’s growth....
Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis for better calibration of geological archives of this period. The last complete reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, the so-called Laschamps event, took pl…...
Researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago have discovered a new gene-editing technique that allows for the programming of sequential cuts—or edits—over time....
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system....
If the Roman Empire had been able to launch a satellite in a relatively high Low Earth Orbit – say about 1,200 km (750 miles) in altitude – only now would that satellite be close to falling back to Earth. And if the dinosaurs had launched a satellite into the…...
Rock from Mars is a rare and precious resource here on Earth. So far, the only samples we have are chunks of meteorite, dislodged from the red planet and travelling through the Solar System until they smack into Earth....
Satellites record the speed-up of glaciers along a 1,000km stretch of Antarctic coastline....
Mars's two moons, Phobos and Deimos, have puzzled researchers since their discovery in 1877. They are very small: Phobos's diameter of 22 kilometers is 160 times smaller than that of our moon, and Deimos is even smaller, with a diameter of only 12 kilometers.…...
Artemis astronaut and veteran test pilot set for space station flight in 2022...
Nicola Davis explores how an ancient tree, pulled from a bog, has been used to uncover the timing and environmental impacts of the Earth’s last magnetic pole switch...
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