Author name: Scientific American

The second day of the Artemis II moon mission saw the crew perform a series of maneuvers that put the Orion capsule on course for the lunar far side

A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it got here

These incredible corals form what may be one of the world’s largest reef systems—and researchers have a plan to restore it

Artemis II blasts off on a high‑stakes lunar flyby, marking NASA’s first crewed mission to the moon in decades

The Orion spacecraft just completed its last planned major fuel burn, setting its course for the rest of its ten-day journey around the moon and back

It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track microplastics in drinking water—but experts say doing so will be difficult

Scientists have learned how male octopuses’ specialized sperm-depositing arm knows where to go

This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second GLP-1 pill for weight loss. The drug, called Foundayo, resulted in an average of 27 pounds lost in 72 weeks

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once believed