Science & Astronomy

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took to the skies above Mars' Jezero Crater again early this morning (April 22), just three days after making history with its first Red Planet flight.

Earth Day 2021 is here and the folks at Google hope it plants a tree in your heart with this adorable Google doodle.

The state of the global climate continued to worsen in 2020 despite the series of economically damaging lockdowns and travel limitations triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

NASA's Perseverance rover just notched another first on Mars, one that may help pave the way for its human overlords to explore the Red Planet someday.

Astronomers have apparently found the closest known black hole to Earth — a weirdly tiny object dubbed "The Unicorn" that lurks just 1,500 light-years from us.

A hunt for hypothetical axions streaming from Betelgeuse turns up empty but helps physicists set constraints on their properties.

Space.com caught up with Greene to discuss the importance of science education, why black holes are so interesting and whether a "theory of everything" breakthrough could be on the horizon.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity took flight for the first time Monday (April 19), with data confirming the flight beaming back down to Earth later that morning.

Mars' ancient history is interesting to scientists because if the arid planet was once warm and wet, it may have been habitable to life.

For years, astronomers thought that the objects responsible for short gamma-ray bursts get kicked out of their home galaxies shortly after they're born. But new observations prove otherwise.

For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from interstellar space.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity just made aviation history, and its robotic buddy caught the whole thing on video.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lifted off on the Red Planet early this morning (April 19), performing the first-ever powered flight on a world beyond Earth.

Scientists baked meteorites in an oven and studied the gases they released to investigate the atmospheres of rocky planets.

A stunning new animation from NASA shows the entrancing dance of two monster black holes in orbit around each other.

Could we slow down global warming by creating an aerosol reflector to deflect the sun's rays away from Earth? And should we?

China has selected a Russian science payload to fly on an upcoming mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid and later visit a main-belt comet.

The first helicopter is expected to attempt the first-ever flight on Mars on Monday (April 19), with NASA unveiling the results a day later, and you can follow it all online.

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