Why Do Humans Have A Dominant Eye? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

The eye you instinctively close when you aim a camera has a biological explanation that spans hundreds of millions of years.

‘One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics’: It’s been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven’t solved the secret of gravity

Big G is the oldest fundamental constant in physics and remains the least clearly defined. One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery of the gravitational constant, and it all came down to the opening…

A New Species of Tiny Octopus Was Discovered in the Galápagos Islands

An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name.

NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon’s South Pole

The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.

A Rare ‘Blue Moon’ Is Coming — What It Really Means

A second full moon in a calendar month will occur on May 31 and be best seen at moonrise on May 30. Why is the Blue Moon one of astronomy’s most misunderstood terms?

SpaceX Starship Faces Herculean Tech Hurdles In Race To Moon Landing

Despite acing a flight test of its newest Starship capsule, SpaceX has to speed through an obstacle course of tech hurdles to win the race to land astronauts on the Moon.

NASA’s permanent Moon base plans start with three missions this year
NASA’s permanent Moon base plans start with three missions this year

On Tuesday, NASA announced several upcoming lunar missions to the Moon’s South Pole region. These missions will pave the way for the crewed Artemis landing slated for 2028, starting with three Moon Base missions NASA says are “the first of more than a dozen missions that will be announced this year.” In addition to the […]

NASA Picks Bezos’s Blue Origin Over SpaceX For Key Moon Base Mission

NASA has selected Blue Origin to play a major role in the agency’s expanding Moon Base initiative, which will involve three launches in a short time-frame.

New York City To Get ‘Manhattanhenge’ And ‘Blue Moon’ This Weekend

New Yorkers are in for a rare double celestial treat this weekend as a “Blue Moon” coincides with the first “Manhattanhenge” sunsets of 2026.

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead
Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead

The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we’ve spent more time with it), Google has officially replaced it with Google Health, as previously announced, and many of the responses we’ve seen so far are full of confusion, frustration, […]