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New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and r...

The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. Hydrogen that inevitably escapes from it must be cooled on its way to the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER...

Experimental microbially assisted chemolithotrophy provides an opportunity to trace the putative bioalteration processes of the Martian crust. A study on the Noachian Martian breccia Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, composed...

NASA promises you will "see Mars like never before" during a briefing on Monday.

The Expedition 64 crew is making final preparations today for the arrival of a U.S. resupply ship while keeping up the momentum of space research....

Foldable phones still aren't quite mainstream, but Huawei's new Mate X2 looks like it may just be real competition for Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2.

A robot built out of Lego can solve a Rubik's Cube in about 3.2 seconds, but some 40 years after I first picked up the iconic puzzle, I've yet to solve it on my own. I assumed that successfully unscrambling a cube would ...

Whale watchers in Bermer Bay, Australia witnessed two pods of killer whales trying and failing to kill a young male humpback.

There was a great deal of celebration at NASA and around the world when the Perseverance rover safely landed on the surface of Mars. That historic moment, however, carries a few firsts for a lot of things, and not just f...

A new piece of malware has been detected on almost 30,000 Macs (so far), and it appears that security types can't quite pinpoint the malware's motives. Researchers over at Red Canary, a security operations firm where the...

NASA has released stunning footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, in what is a seminal achievement for the space agency.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, the rabidly pro-Trump pillow magnate who bafflingly became one of the key figures in the ex-president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, is now facing a billion-dollar def...

NASA has shared sounds captured from the earliest moments of Perseverance’s time on Mars, part of a huge cache of photos and audio downloaded from the red planet over the weekend. It’s the first data of what’s set ...

Rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus)Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, M.Zuiko 40-150mm F2.8 PRO (@284mm equiv.) Professional wildlife photographer and Olympus Visionary Scott Bourne is one of the best-known names in bird phot...

After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux figures rocketing into orbit on SpaceX's first private flight should be a piece of cosmic cake.

Cosmologists simulated 4,000 versions of the universe in order to understand what its structure today tells us about its origins.

Black-and-white tuxedos may be the conventional dress code in the penguin world, but one dashing individual is breaking the status quo with an la mode yellow coat.

The image below is of the solar chromosphere and was taken in 1999 during a total solar eclipse. The red and pink hues seen around the edges are created by light emitted by hydrogen. The bright colors are what gave the c...

Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts --

Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts --

Sony looks set to upgrade its flagship true wireless range soon, and is yet again applying a major redesigning to its WF-1000X series buds. For the WF-1000XM4

Home security systems are becoming more and more common and popular, but there's a lot of chaff among the wheat - which is to say, you could wind up with