The latest on commercial space stations, Japan's mission to bring a sample from a Martian moon, and space-based weapons.

In the new movie “Whalefall,” a scuba diver has a very bad day in the guts of a sperm whale. Could it actually happen?

A free-floating seaweed called sargassum is exploding in the Atlantic Ocean, clogging up coastlines from West Africa to the ...

A linguist weighs in on how "politician speak" has changed over the past century, and what it says about what we want from ...

For Ada Lovelace Day, our 2018 story about the women who made the internet, with the author of "Broad Band" and the founder ...

In the past few years, the idea of attachment styles has taken off, both online and in therapy offices. It’s gone from a niche psychological concept to a shorthand to describe how we show up in ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech In late September 2026, NASA announced that a new telescope called PRIMA was getting a green light and ...

An estimated 2 billion tons of dust are lofted into the air each year, affecting ecosystems, the atmosphere, and the weather.

A new mRNA flu vaccine promises a closer match to circulating flu strains. But dysfunction at federal health agencies is ...