Boeing's Starliner capsule is ready to launch again. During a flight readiness review Wednesday (May 11), NASA cleared Starliner to launch on Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), a crucial uncrewed missio… [+7619 chars]
Skywatchers might get a bonus this weekend, when a meteor storm not associated with a major meteor shower could light up the morning. In the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, May 15, our planet will pass t… [+1555 chars]
A spectacularly preserved arrow from the Iron Age — complete with its iron arrowhead, sinew wrappings and aerodynamic feather fletching — is now in the hands of glacial archaeologists in Norway. It'… [+3274 chars]
A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models created at Los Alamos National Laboratory, can estimate earthquake magnitud… [+2561 chars]
A huge fireball has been filmed streaking across the sky in Britain. The dazzling meteor burned up over the south west of England just after midnight on Thursday, with sightings in South Wales, Hert… [+5788 chars]
A spectacularly preserved arrow from the Iron Age — complete with its iron arrowhead, sinew wrappings and aerodynamic feather fletching — is now in the hands of glacial archaeologists in Norway. It'… [+3274 chars]
Did the world's largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch? Researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences e… [+4811 chars]
A purely mechanical method can produce a novel, more sustainable fertiliser in a less polluting way. That is the result of a method optimised at DESY's light source PETRA III. An international team u… [+7036 chars]
A study on the explosion titled "X-ray detection of a nova in the fireball phase" has been published in the journal Nature. German astronomers have observed a white dwarf star explode with X-ray rad… [+2343 chars]
Is there sound in space? New audio released from NASA provides some insight – and the answer is haunting. The audio, released on May 4, is that of a black hole from the center of the Perseus galaxy… [+2397 chars]
A new study from North Carolina State University shows the behavioral mechanism behind a sweet cockroach mating ritual that takes a bitter turn, resulting in rejected males. Male German cockroaches … [+6321 chars]
Although climate change is driving sea level rise over time, scientists say differences in surface height from place to place in the ocean can affect Earth’s climate. These ups and downs are associat… [+3479 chars]
