October 13, 2021

Star Trek’s William Shatner makes it to space in ‘unbelievable’ Blue Origin launch

Star Trek actor William Shatner finally became a real space traveler on Blue Origin’s second crewed mission Wednesday, calling it

This Dead Star is The Best Glimpse Yet at The Future of Our Solar System

How will the Solar System die? It’s a hugely important question that researchers have speculated a lot about, using our

Long hauls in space seem to increase brain damage risk, study finds

As a species we haven’t been exploring space for very long, and scientists are only just beginning to understand the

A ‘Black Hole Laser’ Could Finally Shine a Light on Elusive Hawking Radiation

Scientists are getting closer to being able to spot Hawking radiation – that elusive thermal radiation thought to be produced by

A recurring weather phenomenon drives nearly 6 million children into severe hunger

A single bad El Niño can drive almost 6 million children into severe hunger, a new study has found. This

There’s No Way Venus Could Ever Have Had Oceans, Astronomers Say

Let’s be honest: in the Solar System, there really is no good place for humans that isn’t Earth. But that

Elusive ‘electron crystal’ phenomenon directly imaged for first time ever

Physicists have taken the first ever image of a Wigner crystal – a strange honeycomb-pattern material inside another material, made

Sea level rise will hugely differ if we can limit global warming, new study warns

Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, seas will rise

Physicists Capture The Most Precise Measurement Yet of a Neutron’s Lifespan

We now know, to within a tenth of a percent, how long a neutron can survive outside the atomic nucleus

Mysterious flashing radio signal coming from center of the galaxy, scientists report

As our eyes on the sky grow ever more sensitive, we’re going to find more and more things we’ve never