Category: Science

“That never gets old!” The future of rocketry is here. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, recently blasted a crew of space tourists on a 10-minute suborbital flight, reaching nearly 66 miles above Earth‘s surface. Blue Origin’s big-windowed crew capsule parachuted down to the West Texas desert on …

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Never before filmed in its natural environs. Scientists previously captured rare footage of a giant squid. Now, they’ve filmed another huge squid species — the colossal squid. The first specimens of the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) were formally described by biologists a century ago, in 1925. These deep sea dwellers, which live exclusively …

The most detailed view yet. In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at planetary nebula NGC 1514, where a star is shedding copious amounts of gas into the universe as it gradually exhausts its fuel and shrinks down into a dense core — …

An all-female crew is headed to space to start off your week. Katy Perry’s trip to space is almost here. Well, sort of, anyway. Blue Origin’s mission NS-31, which includes an all-female civilian astronaut crew, is getting ready to launch on Monday morning from Van Horn, TX. The launch is set for roughly 9:30 a.m. ET, though it …

Here's who really dunnit. Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth. But new evidence has emerged in the case that astronomers say exonerates this elderly Milky Way star of …

Asteroids aren't all bad. When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it’s not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created …

“If you run out of fuel, you run out of life.” Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting Space Force assets. The high-altitude endeavor, undertaken by the orbital servicing enterprise Astroscale U.S., is slated to occur in the summer of 2026, the company announced this week. This …

This could be bad news for NASA's Dragonfly mission. Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be among the most Earth-like worlds in the solar system, covered in lapping rivers and lakes, but new research suggests it likely couldn’t support much life — if at all. Scientists are interested in Titan because it appears to …

Colossal Biosciences created the wolves using gene-editing technology. The sci-fi fairytale of de-extinction may become a reality. Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences announced they have revived dire wolves from extinction, unveiling three canines it has genetically engineered to resemble the long-dead species. On Tuesday, Colossal revealed that two genetically identical male “dire wolf” puppies named Romulus and Remus were born …