The new, juiced-up version of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket just cleared a big hurdle on the path to its first-ever launch.
That liftoff, targeted for early or mid-May, will be the 12th overall for Starship but the first for the vehicle’s…

The new, juiced-up version of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket just cleared a big hurdle on the path to its first-ever launch.
That liftoff, targeted for early or mid-May, will be the 12th overall for Starship but the first for the vehicle’s…

An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass near Earth in three years, giving scientists a rare chance to study a colossal space rock from close range.
Named Apophis — after the ancient Egyptian deity known as the “god of chaos”…
If you’re not from Hilton Head Island, there’s a chance you never seen one before. But every April, the island is swarmed by millions of tiny, fuzzy yellow creepy crawlies with cherry-red heads.
Don’t be fooled by their cute and fuzzy…

April 15, 2026
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The Trump administration is looking to experts to weigh in on peptides
Peptide-based substances are largely unproven and risky, experts say, but they’re gaining popularity among influencers and…

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It began with a curious discovery: a series of unusual structures located more than 100 feet below the surface of Lake Huron, first detected in 2008.
What resulted was an ongoing investigation of curious sunken features…

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July 29, 2025, it launched a Pacific-wide tsunami – and a rare natural experiment.
NASA and the French space agency’s SWOT satellite happened to pass…

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When a naked mole rat queen dies, that usually means war—but not for this colony
When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But peace may be…

The most precise measurement yet of how fast the Universe is expanding shows we have a real and serious problem on our hands.
The international H0DN Collaboration – a community consensus report on the Hubble constant – has remapped the…