When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The surface of Mars, as seen by NASA’s Viking 1 lander in July 1976. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who
As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to CERN’s LHC—ran its final particles and ceased operations last Friday. This is actually good news. Don’t worry, the shutdown doesn’t have much to do with the recent, general turmoil science has endured in the U.S. The RHIC
Science & Exploration 4044 views 63 likes Update — 10 February 2026: NASA and SpaceX have announced they are now planning to launch the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station no earlier than 10:15 GMT / 11:15 CET (05:15 ET) on Friday 13 February, due to forecast weather conditions along the flight path of the Dragon
Through carbon dating, researchers have ruled that the artifacts are between approximately 11,700 and 12,900 years old, a time when Ice Age temperatures had returned after a brief warm period. Researchers have identified what is believed to be the world’s oldest sewn animal hide, along with Ice Age eyed bone needles, discovered in Oregon, according
The first solar eclipse of 2026 will be a dramatic annular solar eclipse on Feb. 17. The downside for most of us is that the stunning ‘ring of fire’ will be witnessed by more penguins than people. Stretching 2,661 miles (4,282 kilometers) long and 383 miles (616 km) wide, the path of annularity — where
A deep-sea expedition has uncovered a continuous band of yellow rock fractured into brick-like blocks nearly 10,000 feet below the ocean surface. That ordered pattern forces a rethink of how volcanic terrain can fracture and persist under extreme pressure and long isolation. Where the road appeared The discovery sits atop the Liliʻuokalani Ridge,
The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the inner solar system — but some astronomers think a part of it might still be out there. In early 2020, astronomers discovered the icy traveler, known as C/2019 Y4 ATLAS, and
A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing. Could they please send personnel over? According to the fire station’s November 30 dispatcher log, the employee said, “The fire started
There are those who like to point out that we know more about space than the ocean , stoking a feeling of existential dread that we inhabit the same planet as one of the greatest unknowable entities around. Still, that’s not to say space isn’t full of mysteries. Like these weird signals that’ve had scientists
If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe electrons as “flowing” in an “electric current.” In reality, water and electricity flow in completely different ways. Whereas water molecules move