First-look data from the Solar Orbiter could reveal new ‘wonders’ about the Sun
The European Space Agency has released the first round of information from the probe, which hundreds of scientists across the globe are working together to understand.
Astronomers spy galaxies caught in the web of a voracious black hole
Astronomers staring out to the farthest reaches of the universe, and hence the deepest depths of time, have been puzzled to find supermassive black holes. How could such behemoths have had time to swallow up so much matter when the universe was so young? With new observations of one of […]
US spy satellite launch aborted in final seconds again
The countdown clock got down to T-7 seconds.
Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome to modern humans
The modern humans won in the battle of the sex chromosomes.
Indian researchers use ‘nanomotors’ as detectors that can read cancer environment
‘Provocative results’ boost hopes of antibody treatment for COVID-19
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Here’s everything we know about the secretive spy satellite launching tonight
There are clues about what this satellite will do.
Did NASA detect a hint of life on Venus in 1978 and not realize it?
What if scientists had started hunting for life on Venus in 1978?
Stem cells offer new glimpse at how the placenta emerges—and how the fetus-sustaining organ can fail
The placenta—a Frisbee-size hunk of tissue that chaperones a fetus in the uterus only to be tossed aside in the delivery room—has mysterious beginnings. The organ emerges from cells that develop alongside the embryo, and that have been difficult to grow in the lab. Now, researchers have devised a way […]