Technology
NASA’s Boss Just Shook Up the Agency’s Plans to Land on...
Sean Duffy called out SpaceX for being “behind schedule” on a lunar lander and said he’d explore other options.
Easter Island’s Moai Statues May Have Walked to Where They...
An archaeological mystery gets one step closer to being solved.
Easter Island's Moai Statues May Have Walked to Where They...
An archaeological mystery gets one step closer to being solved.
Mystery Object From ‘Space’ Strikes United Airlines Flight...
Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above 30,000 feet.
AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study
A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend...
How to See Comet Lemmon This October
This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system for another...
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Cosmic...
Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different...
A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect...
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.
How to Make STEM Funny—and Go Viral Doing It
If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee’s jokes.

