Science

Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis completed the first privately funded spacewalk Thursday — a critical aspect of a risky, somewhat troubled mission designed to test new SpaceX technology,...

The Ocean Photographer of the Year awards announced the winners of its 2024 contest on Thursday. Presented by Oceanographic Magazine and Blancpain Ocean Commitment, the contest highlights the work of...

A billionaire-backed SpaceX mission is about to attempt a daring, first-of-its-kind feat. On Thursday, four people currently orbiting Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship plan to don a set...

The first commercial spacewalk will take place this week. The spacewalk is part of the Polaris Dawn mission—a five-day commercial mission to push the limits of commercial space travel exponentially....

In the summer of 1939, Albert Einstein made what he considered his “one great mistake“: signing a letter that would reach the desk of President Franklin Roosevelt and help usher...

The hunt for nearly infinite energy has been long and arduous, but scientists continue to look for new ways to generate the energy that we, as a species, need to...

Russia is evading sanctions to acquire U.S.-made semiconductors and weapons components for use in Ukraine—largely through China, according to a new Senate report that led lawmakers to grill chip-making executives...

On March 11, Syrian farmer Ali Ahmad Barakat was driving a tractor to his fields in the fertile rebel-held lands of the Al-Ghab plain, just a few miles away from...

SpaceX just launched four people on its most daring human spaceflight yet, a mission called Polaris Dawn. The crew features a billionaire, a pilot, and two SpaceX employees. After an...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that life can exist on Earth. Of course, we already knew that, but the confirmation comes as part of Juice’s atmosphere test to ensure...