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Just after 9.20pm, Houston time, on Monday 13 April 1970, Jim Lovell, who has died aged 97, looked out of the left side window of Odyssey,…

It has been a summer of heatwaves in western Europe, with record highs of 46C (115F) in Spain and Portugal.An estimated 2,300 people died of heat-related…

What defines a game by Don’t Nod, the French studio behind acclaimed narrative dramas Life Is Strange, Tell Me Why and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage?…

Spaceships modelled on jellyfish, 3D-printed homes, polyamorous relationships and vegetarian diets are among the ways in which experts have envisaged making interstellar travel feasible.The ideas from…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s…

The spaceship hovered for less than a minute before crashing in a giant plume of smoke, but it was history-making nonetheless – the attempted launch of…

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort,…

It’s a good time of year to track down the summer constellation of Sagittarius, the archer, who is usually depicted as a centaur drawing a bow.The…

new video loaded: In the Latest Space Race, It’s China vs. SpaceXBy Selam Gebrekidan, Nikolay Nikolov, Jon Hazell, Laura Salaberry and Malika Khurana•July 24, 2025China has…

Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of…