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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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Life on Earth is lucky: A rare chemical fluke may have made our planet habitable
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: NASALife on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to...
Earth’s core may contain as much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen, scientists find
Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it the planet’s largest hydrogen reservoir, researchers recently...
Who are the astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission to the ISS?
The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for a crew portrait in their pressure suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev,...
RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease
Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come from?Scientists are realizing the defining qualities that make up each...
1 week until an annular solar eclipse turns the sun into a ‘ring of fire’ over Antarctica
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An annular solar eclipse captured in the sky over Nevada in October 2023. | Credit: Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty ImagesWe're just one week away from the...
Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires
A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.Scientists say snow cover and snow depth are both at the lowest levels...
An emotional countdown to the maiden launch of the Ariane 64, Europe’s most powerful rocket
VERNON, France (AP) — In a tightly controlled manufacturing hangar west of Paris, workers put the finishing touches on an enormous silver-colored engine. In just a few days, a similar machine will help propel the most powerful version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket yet,...
A city on the moon: Why SpaceX shifted its focus away from Mars
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the moon during an Artemis astronaut mission for NASA. | Credit: SpaceXElon Musk has always been locked in on...
India’s migratory beekeepers and their hives follow the flowers to make the honey flow
BINNABARI, India (AP) — The beekeepers rise early. They've come a long way to spend the winter months in the electric yellow mustard fields of Assam, and they have to make the trip worth it.At dawn, they eat a simple breakfast and won't eat again until dusk. They'll...
How long will the ISS operate with a skeleton crew? SpaceX’s Crew-12 astronaut mission delayed to Feb. 12
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Backdropped by a faint moon and bright blue sky, SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Freedom" is mounted atop a Falcon 9 rocket poised to launch four astronauts to the...
Radar data reveals cavernous underground lava tube on Venus
By Will DunhamWASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface feature ever detected on...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS survived its flyby of the sun — and gave up some secrets in the process
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope re-observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 30, 2025 with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. | Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, D....