In 1850, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, a mathematician when he wasnt fulfilling his main responsibility as a vicar in the Church of England, described his schoolgirl problem: Fifteen young ladies in a sc… [+6711 chars]
The invasion of Ukraine has taken a toll on Russias ongoing partnerships with the U.S. and Europe in space. Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced that its fully terminating its cooperation w… [+3723 chars]
While Amazon Prime Day is now over there's still an amazing deal on this Celestron 114LCM computerized Newtonian telescope normally worth $439.95 now listed as just $364 on Amazon (opens in new tab)… [+2898 chars]
For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, sug… [+3924 chars]
Journalism like our space coverage takes time and resources. Please support it with a subscription here. --- Update: Liftoff of Falcon 9 at 8:44 p.m. ET! Dragon and its cargo are now en route to th… [+794 chars]
It is a rare delight for a sequel to be as good as the original, but the second image release from the James Webb Space Telescope certainly lived up to expectations set by Monday evening's thrilling … [+14684 chars]
What happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole? The obvious story is that it gets sucked in, never to be seen again. Some of its material gets superheated on the way in and t… [+4980 chars]
New findings show that Earth-size planets may be even less likely to survive the violent conditions at the end of some stars' lives than previously believed. This means that the first exoplanet disco… [+4960 chars]
JWST released the deepest highest resolution view of the infrared universe earlier this week, with people amazed at the distant galaxies, gravitationally lensed by the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. The … [+2246 chars]
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto seven years ago, but the probe's work is far from done. New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt… [+6179 chars]
Researchers suspect that ancient male frogs pushed females underwater while trying to mount them. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)It was a cold case with hundreds of victims. For deca… [+5348 chars]
Many science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding because of friction as prototypical examples of the systems physicists care about. But much of modern physics consists o… [+22747 chars]
