Science

SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast today (Nov. 5), adding to its huge and ever-growing satellite-internet megaconstellation.

Minnesota schools are confronting a student mental health crisis with a fragile patchwork system—and without much of the federal money that was supposed to help fix it.

Australians filed over 80,000 reports of online child sexual abuse last financial year, more than double the 36,600 reports in 2021

“Sex sells” has been a mantra in marketing for decades. As researchers who study consumer behavior, we’ve seen plenty of evidence to support it: Attractive models and spokespeople have been shown to reliably grab attention, boost clicks and make products…

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia.

“If these results are confirmed, it would mark a major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of dark energy 27 years ago.”

Five lucky winners will be announced Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) on Space.com’s Facebook, Twitter, and BlueSky pages.

A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated in a new study that solving a task together can promote spontaneous movement synchronization. Such synchronization serves as a kind of “social glue” and plays…

A study published in Economics Letters has found that first-year female college students are experiencing slower academic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic compared to males.

The law is failing victims and survivors because it is turning a blind eye to the long-lasting and severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, a new study warns.