As the largest bony fish on the planet, the sunfish is often mistaken for a dying fish. However, these enormous creatures are actually floating at the surface to soak up the sun and regulate their body temperature. Nathan Coleman has all the insights.
In many ways, SpaceX's fifth orbital test flight of its heavy-lift Starship spacecraft has been a huge success. The company managed to safely catch Starship's Super Heavy booster using its "Mechazilla" tower, which features two "chopsticks" arms. Even the 165-foot spacecraft itself managed to pull off a textbook flight, taking off early Sunday morning […]
SpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms.
First Catch Elon Musk's space venture SpaceX has just pulled off the seemingly impossible. During the company's fifth Starship test flight, SpaceX successfully caught the spacecraft's Super Heavy booster using its "Mechazilla" tower, an unbelievable feat of engineering that required an immense amount of precision and experience. It's the first time the company even attempted […]
A new study shines light on a hotly contested centuries-old mystery.
SpaceX astounded engineers, scientists and space enthusiasts by returning its heaviest rocket booster back to its launch pad intact. Beyond the technical marvel of the Starship rocket, reusability is expected to dramatically cut back on mission costs.
A mission that will investigate the potential habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon Europa — is ready for liftoff.
NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be lurking beneath its thick outer shell of ice. The U.S. space agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket under sunny skies. The robotic solar-powered probe is due to enter orbit around Jupiter in 2030 after journeying about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) in 5-1/2 years.
SpaceX is moving forward with plans to launch the first test flight of its Starship megarocket since June from Starbase in Texas.
The world’s most powerful rocket launched on another daring test flight from the SpaceX Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas Sunday.
SpaceX's Starship flew on its boldest flight test yet, a pivotal step forward for the vehicle that will take astronauts to the moon and on to Mars.
Mother Nature gets the assist with SpaceX's successful rocket launch on Sunday, with southern Texas enjoying a ridge of high pressure and, essentially, calm conditions
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The 15th-century explorer was a Sephardic Jew from western Europe, Spanish DNA experts reveal
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Don’t be fooled by the image of a mad scientist isolated in his basement laboratory. Science is a collaborative endeavor, and international teams have contributed to a huge rise in scientific output.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to trio of economists
In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing some 50 “exceptionally well-preserved” skeletons. “This is such an exciting find because we found these skeletons that are so very, very well preserved,” said archeologist Michael Borre Lundø, who led the six-month dig. The skeletons were preserved thanks to favorable soil chemistry, particularly chalk and high water levels, experts from Museum Odense said.
EDMONTON — Canada’s famed dinosaur hunter and one of the inspirations for the "Jurassic Park" phenomenon turned 75 earlier this year and has no plans to drop his chisel and rock hammer.
In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par” with how our brains perceive color, “refuting the widely held belief that olfaction is our slow sense,” a new study finds.
The 233-foot-long booster was caught by giant "chop-stick" arms during landing. This technical breakthrough on a rocket eventually headed to Mars demonstrated that it can be used over and over, like a jetliner.
