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Earlier today Apple announced that its new generation of phones, iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, will have the Emergency SOS feature. It will allow sending distress messages and sharing location by connecting directly to sa...

NASA has selected Houston company Axiom Space to build the moon spacesuits for Artemis 3, a mission that aims to land astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2025 or 2026.

Image: Astronomers have been bemused to find young stars spiralling into the centre of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The outer arm of the spiral in this hu...

A joint U.S.-French Earth science mission is ready to be delivered to California for a launch now scheduled for early December, a slight delay caused in part because of transportation issues. The post U.S.-French Earth s...

IDW to release a prequel comic series to this year's "Star Trek: Resurgence" video game.

After weeks of off-the-charts monsoon rains, Pakistan's largest freshwater lake started overflowing in early September, new satellite images reveal.

A new way of teaching science can give students a chance to learn how science really makes its way forward and offer them a chance to mix it up themselves.

Blue Canyon Technologies delivered the first of 10 satellite buses DARPA ordered in 2020 for its Blackjack experiment in low Earth orbit. The post Blue Canyon delivers first satellite bus for DARPA's Blackjack constellat...

Adranos, a startup that manufactures solid rocket motors, announced Sept. 8 it opened a fuel-production facility in Indiana. The post Solid rocket startup Adranos opens fuel-production facility in Indiana appeared first ...

A new type of exoplanet, one made half of rock and half of water, has been discovered around the most common stars in the universe. The find may have great consequences in the search for alien life.

Water is the one thing all life on Earth needs, and the cycle of rain to river to ocean to rain is an essential part of what keeps our planet's climate stable and hospitable. When scientists talk about where to search fo...

A new study shows that modern humans produce more neurons during their development than Neanderthals due to a slight variation in one of the proteins present in the brain.

NASA's next attempt to launch its new megarocket on a test flight to the moon could lift off by Sept. 23, but only if the agency fixes a leak and receives a critical waiver from the U.S. Space Force.

The absence of a lower leg from a set of ancient remains reveals that the oldest limb removal occurred on the island of Borneo 31,000 years ago.

Nature likes spirals--from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe.

Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

Registration is now open for the 11th annual ESA Open Day at ESTEC, open to all visitors. ESA's ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, will be open from 10:00 to 17:00 on Sunday 2 October, giving visitors ...

This interesting image from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of fascinating dunes called barchan dunes. These dunes have formed along a cliff in Chasma Boreale, in the North Pole of Mars...

NASA is looking at September 23 and September 27 as possible dates for its next attempt at launching its Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, senior official Jim Free told reporters Thursday.

A science learning researcher shares the story of how Science Near Me came to be and why it matters.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope is now for sale at your local U.S. post office. A postage stamp depicting the James Webb Space Telescope has been released by the USPS.

With the help of detailed observations, astronomers have managed to get a first representative glimpse of the numerous young stars in the central regions of our home galaxy. The observations provide evidence for star for...