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This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The exact date when the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia was lost is readily recalled by Patrick Forrester, as it likely would be for any NASA employee in service that Saturday morning when the Shuttle broke up during reentry. Forrester had flown to ISS

Residents of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas report seeing a bright fireball Thursday around 8 p.m.

Sørvágsvatn in the Faroe Islands creates a striking visual phenomenon where one side appears to hover above the Atlantic Ocean. This 1.3-square-mile lake's dramatic appearance results from surrounding cliffs and a unique geographical perspective that deceives the human eye.

Fast solar wind may spark northern lights over 9 U.S. states tonight (March 13). Here's when and where to look.

46 million years ago, an asteroid struck beneath the North Sea, causing a massive tsunami. New findings reveal the incredible details.

For decades, AI was held back by slow, expensive computers. Today, the problem is simpler, but harder to fix: finding enough reliable electricity to keep data centers running as AI spreads into everyday life.

China has zeroed in on a volcanic region that could host its first astronauts on the Moon, and researchers say the site holds far more than a safe landing zone.

A peculiar observation during laboratory experiments has led researchers to the breakthrough of a lifetime.

A double burial in Ukraine of two women from the Late Scythian culture contains a toxic red mineral, but exactly why it was used remains a mystery.

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have uncovered three key discoveries about how unstable atomic nuclei …

Activity at the volcano in the Philippines sent lava and pyroclastic flows down the volcano’s flanks and prompted evacuations in nearby communities.

Our view of the cosmos changes completely based on how we observe it.

Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce to every...

NASA has finished a crucial step toward getting its Artemis II moon mission off the ground, and is now targeting early April to send four astronauts on an unprecedented path.

Centaur-style wearable robot adds two legs behind humans, cutting walking effort by 35% while carrying heavy loads.

What: Falcon 9 rocket launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: Between 7:37 and 7:56 a.m. Friday, according to SpaceX. If

The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project (LBFD) is part of NASA’s effort to help enable new aircraft noise standards that are required to open the market to commercial supersonic flight over land. The federal government banned all civilian supersonic flights over land more than fifty years ago due t

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

"You can tell he had done this before, like, many times."

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Rocky planets are found in abundance around M-type stars (red dwarfs), so finding another one doesn't always generate headlines. But an international team of astronomers say that one recent M-dwarf rocky planet found by TESS is especially noteworthy. This one…

NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks beginning Wednesday, March 18, outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of two roll-out solar arrays. Experts from NASA will preview the spacewalks during a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, March 16, at the age

"We were like, 'Hello, what's going on here?'