Venera 4 left Baikonur Cosmodrome in the central Soviet Union early in the morning of June 12, 1967. The first two stages of its three-stage Molniya-M launch vehicle placed the 1106-kilogram automate...
In January, a Quebec man named Sylvio Langvein walked into a courthouse in Canada and filed a suit declaring himself owner of the planets in our solar system, four of Jupiter’s moons, and the interpl...
<< Previous | Next >> Saturn’s moon Enceladus is a strange place. The cold, tiny moon in the far reaches of the solar system is an unlikely location for liquid water. Yet scientists have ...
You can now greet by name two new residents of the period table of elements: Flerovium and Livermorium. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved names for the element...
A "Schrödingers hat" metamaterial could trap a signal (red spike at center) from an atomic particle while leaving the signals source undisturbed. Image: A. Greenleaf et al./PNAS Mathematici...
The night can never be completely dark. Take away city lights, the moon, and the stars, and the sky itself will still produce a faint radiance. Known as airglow, the diffuse phenomenon is beautifully...
Watch as SpaceX’s Dragon capsule undocks and departs from the International Space Station in the video above. The spacecraft — which flew as the first privately operated mission to resupp...
<< Previous | Next >> UPDATE 8:42 a.m. PDT -- Dragon successfully splashed down in the Pacific off of the coast of Baja California. Tomorrow marks the end of SpaceXs first mission to the ...
Stream videos at Ustream Don’t miss the thrilling conclusion of SpaceX’s first mission to the International Space Station. Tune in May 31 starting at 12:30 a.m. PDT to see live feed coverage of the D...
Microscopic pathogens have been causing mass coral die-offs around the world. But now researchers are using high-speed video to spy on the behavior of killer microbes and potentially learn how to bet...
Olympus Mons, the solar systems largest volcano, may have been a significant source of reduced carbon (NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems). When the Tissint meteorite crashed to Earth in Morocco la...
Discarded wrapper from a packet of Spice, a popular synthetic cannabis mixture. Photo: Matto Fredriksson/Flickr The war on drugs has a new front, and so far it appears to be a losing one. Synthetic m...
Two small asteroids buzzed by Earth, zooming well within the moon’s orbit, over the last 48 hours. Neither posed any danger, but the events were eagerly captured by amateur astronomers, and the secon...
By Michael Balter, ScienceNOW Even the most democratic societies are rife with social and economic inequalities, as the current tension between the poorer “99 percent” and the richest ...
<< Previous | Next >> Furby, AIBO and Pleo might be fantastic robot pets, but can they carry hundreds of pounds, outrun a human or lead a school of fish? We think not. Wired scoured the w...
The moon is about to become crowded. In the next few years a slew of countries, including China, India, and Japan, are looking to put unmanned probes on the lunar surface. But more unprecedented are ...
Update: You can see a video of SpaceX’s successful berthing with the International Space Station above and several still images after the text below. Tune in May 24 at 11 p.m. PDT (7 a.m. GMT) ...
In our forward-thinking world, we tend to think that ancient technology is, well, ancient. But all of our modern innovations rely on advancements made long ago, sometimes thousands of years in the pa...
Image: torbakhopper/Flickr Scientists are several steps closer to restoring flavor to the supermarket tomato, a once-magnificent fruit turned by commercial pressures into a juicy orb of gustatory car...
Scarlett Johansson, Ron Artest, Rihanna, Anthony Wiener, Jessica Alba, and Kanye West. Over the past two years, more photographs of bare-naked celebrity anatomy have been leaked to the public eye tha...
Update: NASA has released this video, showing the Dragon spacecraft (the small black dot) during its approach to the International Space Station. Tune in at 11:30 p.m. PDT (7:30 a.m. GMT) to see a li...
Multiple drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria seen under an electron microscope. Photo: CDC By flooding our environment with antibiotics, people may alter a little-appreciated but profound a...
Researchers have used new lunar satellite images to pinpoint exactly where the Apollo 17 astronauts took their iconic photographs of the moon’s surface. That data has in turn allowed planetary ...
By Rachel Nuwer, ScienceNOW It’s no wonder that fish stocks around the world are plummeting. Up to 25 percent of the global catch comes from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Now, science...
<< Previous | Next >> Most people have pulled long-forgotten vegetables from their refrigerators depths at least once, and just the memory is enough to make a stomach turn. But one mans f...
As a team of climbers inches toward the summit of Mount Everest, body sensors will monitor them day and night, collecting data to help researchers understand chronic illnesses like heart disease. Mem...
Did you see the eclipse yesterday? In case of poor geographic location or general Sunday laziness, here’s a time-lapse video showing the celestial event in its full glory. Created by amateur astropho...
An annular solar eclipse will be visible May 20 from eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and much of the North American West Coast. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth an...
If you’re a space enthusiast, this weekend is going to be a doozy. In the wee hours of Saturday, May 19, the private spaceflight company SpaceX is planning to launch their Dragon capsule from Cape Ca...
A model of the USS Enterprise. Image: Louie Kenny/Flickr Only an imagination made of stone could fail to stir at the thought of a real-world USS Enterprise blasting away from Earth within 20 years, r...
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