A Climate Powerhouse Calls on Biden to Step Aside
The Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate organization that helped elect President Biden, is now calling on him to quit the…
SpaceX Rocket Fails, Breaking Apart in Orbit
The failure, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket.The…
Chandra Observatory Captures Two Supernovas in (Slow) Motion
For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar explosions.“The past…
NASA Europa Clipper Mission Imperiled by Chips on Spacecraft
Transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October, may not be able to endure the harsh radiation…
Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.Hundreds…
A Mammoth DNA Discovery Helps Map an Ancient Genome in 3-D
In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston, Copenhagen, Barcelona and beyond — got their hands…
Climate Activists in New York Protest Citibank and Other Backers of Big Oil
Amid soaring temperatures, hundreds of activists are staging boisterous blockades and solemn marches at banks and insurers that support fossil…
A.I. Helped to Spot a Copper Mining Bonanza in Zambia
Peering into their computer screens in California last year, the data crunchers watched a subterranean fortune come into focus.What they…
How Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan to Colonize Mars
For more than two decades, Elon Musk has focused SpaceX, his rocket company, on his lifelong goal of reaching Mars.Over…
NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts
In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in…