A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...

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Some movies you watch and never forget—because you can’t. Who could fail to remember the first time they saw Nazis in space, or Nicolas Cage ranting and raving about honey in a matriarchal commune?

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Some believe the Betz mystery sphere, a steel ball that a Florida family found on their property in 1974, is a piece of alien technology. Here’s the truth.

A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our pick of popular science titles out this month – along with a guide on how to talk to AI, and a look ...

Nature runs on physics, chemistry, and a little evolutionary stubbornness. Some animals carry abilities that sound like ...

Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source projects, matplotlib has been ...