Category: Science

“If you run out of fuel, you run out of life.” Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting Space Force assets. The high-altitude endeavor, undertaken by the orbital servicing enterprise Astroscale U.S., is slated to occur in the summer of 2026, the company announced this week. This …

This could be bad news for NASA's Dragonfly mission. Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like worlds in the solar system, covered in lapping rivers and lakes, but new research suggests it likely couldn’t support much life — if at all. Scientists are interested in Titan because it appears to …

Colossal Biosciences created the wolves using gene-editing technology. The sci-fi fairytale of de-extinction may become a reality. Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences announced they have revived dire wolves from extinction, unveiling three canines it has genetically engineered to resemble the long-dead species. On Tuesday, Colossal revealed that two genetically identical male “dire wolf” puppies named Romulus and Remus were born …

It's a window into the early universe. A new snapshot of a busy star cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope proves the legendary observatory’s still got it, even in the golden age of the James Webb Space Telescope. The image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery …

The Webb telescope reveals secrets of Sagittarius C. About 200 light-years from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way lies a region that isn’t as fertile as scientists would think. This star-forming cloud of gas and dust, Sagittarius C, is brimming with all of the …

It's a rare sight. Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. Maybe it’s the ruddiness of the planet that gives off its own natural sepia tone like we see in Victor Fleming’s film adaptation. Maybe it’s the tornadoes, sometimes so …

“It's another kind of desert.” When cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang footed the cost of a SpaceX flight over the North and South Poles, he thought he’d be able to see signs of explorers and research activities below. But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — …

What story do these bumpy rocks tell? Aliens aren’t terraforming Mars, but one of NASA‘s rovers just found something with a strange texture that might entice a cauliflower lover to do a double-take. Curiosity, a Mini Cooper-sized lab on wheels, was ambling over rugged terrain a few days ago this March …

It's a “surprising discovery.” Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268?0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way. Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It …

New study suggests it likely doesn't have air. Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun‘s closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri. The star, just four light-years away, is known as a red dwarf, or M-type, and is quite different from …