Blue Origin has become one of the most talked-about names in the modern space age.
Founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in 2000, the company has steadily built a reputation for innovation, ambition, and a bold vision of humanity’s future beyond Earth….

Blue Origin has become one of the most talked-about names in the modern space age.
Founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in 2000, the company has steadily built a reputation for innovation, ambition, and a bold vision of humanity’s future beyond Earth….

An electron microscopy image of the silk of the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa, has won top prize in the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.
The image was captured by arachnologist Martín Ramírez at the…

Cosmologists are grappling with a major unresolved puzzle: they do not all agree on how fast the universe is expanding, and solving this puzzle could point to new physics. To check for hidden errors in traditional measurements that rely on…

A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long enough for their DNA to drift far beyond the range of genetic diversity seen in people today.
The study strengthens the…

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Woods Hole, Mass (December 9, 2025) – For roughly two billion years of Earth’s early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient…

Some of the best views of Earth come from beyond our home planet, as recently captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In late October, astronauts saw Earth covered in a green sheen, a phenomenon called airglow.

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.
Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket,…

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.
Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn…

A new investigation is offering fresh insight into how galaxies like the Milky Way take shape, evolve over time, and develop unexpected chemical patterns in their stars.
Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the study…