Science

From left, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, Johnson Space Center employees Tessa Rundle and Daniel Kolodziejcyk wearing Orion Crew Survival System suits, and Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche stand on the field during the Houston Texans’ Space City Day game Jan. 4,…

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form.

Over the last 25 years, a lot of Lego Star Wars sets have come and gone. These are the ones we wish would make a return.

NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman will conduct a historic spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday morning (Jan. 8), and you can watch the action live.

Money talks, and new research from Northwestern University suggests that it often speaks louder than an American voter’s commitment to democratic norms.

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, researchers have identified chemical residues of poison from the…

Jared Leto’s sci-fi flick hits the Disney+ streaming grid starting January 7.

Talk to a random member of the public and they’re likely to say that people’s behavior is getting worse. From brazen shoplifting, to listening to music out loud on public transport, to violence against retail workers, there are plenty of…

Academics today, around the world, are confined by the way their research output is measured. Indicators that count the number of times their work is cited by other academics, and the relative prestige of journals that publish their papers, determine…

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery “star” in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky as dusk slowly fades. You really should catch the show.