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The most common type of planet in the galaxy may not look anything like Earth on the inside
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: forplayday/iStock/Getty ImagesWe have learned a lot about the planets in our own backyard, and for a long time we assumed the rest of the galaxy looked...
China reveals 3-person Shenzhou 23 crew, including Hong Kong’s 1st astronaut
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The crew of China’s Shenzhou 23 mission to the Tiangong space station. From left: payload specialist Lai Ka-ying, commander Zhu Yangzhu and pilot Zhang Zhiyuan. |...
The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps
An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after the Norse god of mischief. The finding could change the current understanding of...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 211 — Oysters in Space
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: TWiT[embedded content]On Episode 211 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Jacob Scoccimerra of Monolith Space.When one ponders the diet...
Can animals give birth to twins?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] animals give birth to twins? – Mia C., age 10Ask any parent – welcoming a new baby to the family is exciting, but...
SpaceX Starship Flight 12: Don’t miss these stunning photos from the launch of the most powerful Starship yet
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.SpaceX's Starship V3 rocket launches on a test flight from Starbase, Texas on May 22, 2026. | Credit: SpaceXSpaceX Starship's massive V3 launch looked...
Massive ‘X’ and ‘V’ shapes will appear on the moon tonight — here’s how to see them
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The lunar V catches the sun's light around the moon's first quarter phase. | Credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, created by Anthony Wood in Canva.Celestron...
How South African scientists identified hantavirus on a cruise ship thousands of miles away
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — When South African infectious disease specialist Lucille Blumberg checked her email on the morning of May 1, while the country was celebrating the Labor Day holiday, an urgent message caught her attention.A U.K.-based colleague had written about a...
SpaceX launches more powerful Super Heavy-Starship rocket
SpaceX launches upgraded version of Starship rocket 02:37SpaceX launched a revamped Super Heavy-Starship rocket Friday on a flight to test more powerful engines, enhanced control systems and a host of other upgrades needed to streamline operations and improve safety...
NASA space telescope gets 1st clear X-ray image of sun-like star blowing a bubble
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/John Hopkins Univ./C.M. Lisse et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STIS; Optical: NSF/NoirLab/CTIO/DECaPS2; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N....
The sun just had no visible sunspots for the 1st time since 2022. Is the end of the current solar cycle near?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A spotless sun as viewed on Feb. 22, 2026 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). | Credit: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teamsThe sun's...
Ivory Coast unsold cocoa stocks set to soar if price standoff persists
LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will have accumulated about 200,000 metric tons of unsold cocoa by end-March when its main crop concludes unless the government cuts state-regulated farmer prices in order to unlock sales from farmers to traders, industry...
A new problem throws four astronauts’ impending moon journey into uncertainty
Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a new issue with the rocket set to propel four astronauts on an unprecedented path.The agency announced Saturday that it had detected a problem with flow of...
Two stars carve egg-shaped nebula | Space photo of the day Feb. 24, 2026
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Two ageing stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives. | Credit: ESO/G. Tomassini et...
12th century Crusader sword discovered by student off coast of Israel
A centuries-old sword from the time of the Crusades was discovered by a student swimming off the coast of Haifa, Israel, the University of Haifa revealed on Monday.Shlomi Katsin, a student in the university's Department of Maritime Civilizations, was swimming off Dor...
‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you
When a human says an event is “probable” or “likely,” people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like ChatGPT uses the same word, it’s not assessing the odds the way we do, my colleagues and I found.We recently...
What scientists will be looking for when government UFO files are released
Questions about what the federal government may know about extraterrestrial life in the cosmos — or possibly even here on Earth — have inspired imaginations, conspiracy theories, sci-fi literature and blockbuster films. Answers to some of those questions could finally...
A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand’s weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design. The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, and takes a shamelessly relaxed approach to reproduction.But...
For Northeast blizzard, everything was just right to roll up a monster snowfall
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nor’easter smacking much of the Northeast with nearly 3 feet of snow in places is as classic and powerful a blizzard as you can get, the strongest in a decade and up there with the most intense in history, meteorologists said.The nor'easter...
China’s mysterious Shenlong space plane recently launched on its 4th mission. What is it doing up there?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An illustration of China's robotic Shenlong space plane above Earth. | Credit: Erik Simonsen/Getty ImagesChina's reusable space plane is circling Earth once again.The...
‘Birdbrain’ benefits: How being an expert birdwatcher may boost cognition
Being an expert birdwatcher is more than a hobby. It’s a pastime that may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests.In a Canadian study of 58 adults, the brains of expert birders,...
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