Private South Korean rocket exploded last December due to hardware failure, investigation finds
South Korean startup Innospace says it knows what went wrong on its first-ever orbital launch…
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Mathematician Gerd Faltings wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery
Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel PrizePeter Badge/Typos1 Gerd Faltings has won the 2026…
The math of March Madness brackets
Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s…
Get Ready for a Year of Chaotic Weather in the US
Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for…
‘At the edge of what we thought possible’: Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
Scientists have adopted the role of "cosmic archaeologists" to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star…
Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time
NASA’s Perseverance rover is on the hunt for gemsNASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS The Perseverance rover has found precious…
Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come
We are in the space age. Rockets launch to space almost every day. Orbital space…
Chinese astronaut conducts record-tying 6th spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)
A pair of Chinese astronauts ventured outside the Tiangong space station on Monday (March 16)…
A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler
The NEO robot from tech company 1X is marketed as a home assistant1X Science fiction…
Beyond weight loss—how the GLP-1 story is evolving
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.In early…