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Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen Expands Global Search with New Telescope Network
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has taken a significant step forward with the expansion of the Breakthrough Listen initiative to include new world-class telescopes. The program founded by Yuri Milner now operates across multiple continents, creating the...
CRISPR Gene Editing Study Demonstrates How Hox Genes Impact Appearance
Lots of scientists know of the “McGinnis experiment”, which William McGinnis undertook in 1990 to examine how high-level control genes, known as Hox genes, determine our physical characteristics. He investigated whether proteins encoded by the human or mouse Hox gene...
Importance of space exploration according to ‘The Eureka Manifesto’
The human species has always had an insatiable need to explore the unknown and learn more about the undiscovered. We have always stimulated our ambition by pushing our limits in the pursuit of knowledge and working hard to gain a better grasp of our environment and...
Is Living on Mars a Future Possibility?
Scientists have long been exploring the possibility of life on other planets and the ability of humans to live there one day too. There may come a time when earth is uninhabitable in many ways and having a backup planet to go to would be beneficial. In particular,...
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Bus-sized asteroid will fly past Earth tonight mere days after being discovered. Here’s what to expect
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Asteroid 2026 EG1 will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth. | Credit: NASA JPL, NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. PaganA newly discovered bus-sized asteroid is set to...
Northrop Grumman’s 1st ‘Cygnus XL’ cargo spacecraft departs the space station
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: NASAThe first mission of Northrop Grumman's big new cargo spacecraft is nearly over.That freighter, known as Cygnus XL, left the International Space Station...
Will Artemis 2 launch toward the moon next month? Watch NASA’s mission update today
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky[embedded content]NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live.The agency will...
A mass stellar migration billions of years ago may have helped life get started on Earth
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Stars similar to our sun formed a mass migration from the center of the Milky Way, occurring approximately 4 billion to 6 billion years ago. | Credit: NAOJOur sun and...
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket reaches orbit on 1st launch since explosive accidents last year (video)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Firefly AerospaceTexas-based Firefly Aerospace is celebrating today (March 11) after successfully launching its Alpha rocket for the first time in nearly a...
NASA spacecraft makes an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth
A large space probe plummeted into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday — years earlier than expected. And while most of the spacecraft was expected to disintegrate in a flaming blaze during reentry, a few components could have survived, according to NASA.The odds that...
1,300-pound NASA satellite re-enters Earth’s atmosphere after 14 years in space
A 1,300-pound NASA probe re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 14 years after it was launched.The U.S. Space Force confirmed the Van Allen Probe A, which was launched in August 2012, re-entered the atmosphere at 6:37 a.m. ET on Wednesday over the eastern...
Old NASA science satellite plunges back to Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday.The U.S. Space Force said the Van Allen Probe A came in west of the Galapagos Islands.NASA expected some of the 1,323-pound...
Mosquitoes evolved to prefer human blood. The shift could reveal when and where early humans lived
Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans.Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to human blood could provide a novel window into the spread of early...
Astrophysicists figure out what caused a super-bright supernova
WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some - a small fraction - are even brighter than that, 10 to...
The ‘invisible giant’ at the heart of our galaxy | Space photo of the day for March 11, 2026
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A cluster of stars and gas surrounding the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*. | Credit: ESO/D. Ribeiro for the MPE GC teamA new...
Global News Coverage of Climate Change Falls for Fourth Straight Year
Global news coverage of climate change declined for the fourth straight year in 2025, even as emissions hit new highs, according to a new analysis.Coverage is down 14 percent from 2024 and down 38 percent from 2021, when the volume of reporting on climate change...