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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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40 years after the space shuttle Challenger disaster, spaceflight remains far from routine
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The space shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, 1986 with a crew of seven astronauts aboard. An accident 73 seconds after liftoff claimed...
The Challenger shuttle disaster that killed 7 crew members was 40 years ago. What happened and how they’re being remembered.
Forty years ago, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger set out on a mission to not just launch satellites but to carry the first teacher into space and to inspire the promise of spaceflight into classrooms. The seven crew members reflected a broad spectrum of American...
Doomsday Clock 2026: Scientists set new time
At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest the timepiece has...
Shaped by ancient humans, 430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found
The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece.One is made from the trunk of an alder tree and could have been used for digging, and the other...
NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US space strategy has changed since Apollo – and contrasts with China’s closed program
When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a potential catastrophe. An oxygen tank explosion turned a planned landing into an urgent exercise in problem-solving, and the...
Venus may get a huge meteor shower this July, thanks to a long-ago asteroid breakup
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An artist's impression of an asteroid fragmenting into multiple chunks. | Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechVenus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the...
Magnetic avalanches on the sun reveal the hidden engine powering solar flares
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The sun lashes out with a powerful solar flare. Scientists may now know how these outflows are generated. | Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHOA giant solar flare on our sun was...
Super-Earth exoplanets may have built-in magnetic protection from churning magma — and that’s good news for life
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A new experiment created the pressure experienced at the core of an alien world more than three times larger than Earth — a super-Earth — to investigate what happens...
Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine ahead of historic NASA moon launch
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The Artemis 2 crew poses in front of an Orion simulator Jan. 23, 2026 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left: Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy...
Scientists recover the oldest wooden tools from a site in Greece
NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) long that could have been used for digging in the mud. The other is a...
Mysterious dark matter seen in new map of distant galaxies
A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together.The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets and people — makes up just 5% of the universe. For decades,...
James Webb Space Telescope sees comet-seeding crystals flowing far from newborn star (photo)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The young star EC 53, part of the Serpens Nebula — a stellar nursery located about 1,300 light-years from Earth that is brimming with actively forming stars — where...