Childhood cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and three other American civilians went to space in 2021. They travelled in a mission called Inspiration4 for the private company SpaceX. The four-member crew made history as the first all-civilian team to o...
Stars about the size of our sun are not the most common ones in the Milky Way Galaxy. Much smaller stars are far more common. Of all the stars in our galaxy, these small stars host the most planets. Scientists are studying the planets of these small...
Engineers at the Chinese company Ex-Robots are developing human-like robots at a factory in China's northeastern coastal city of Dalian. Their goal is to increase the ability of the company's robots to show facial expressions and emotions. Robot body...
African elephants call each other by and answer to individual names, a new study finds. Such communication is rare in the animal world. African elephants are among the largest animals that live on land. The names are one part of the low sounds, or ru...
A team of international researchers says that climate change made recent flooding in southern Brazil twice as likely to happen. It also said that the El Ni?o Pacific Ocean current made the rains in Brazil more severe. Last month, flooding killed more...
The horse changed human history. And now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to change the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia. That is when humans started to spread do...
A research group says artificial intelligence companies (AI) could run out of publicly available data for their systems in less than eight years. Training data includes writing and information publicly available on the Internet. AI companies use the...
The 2024 Olympic Games open in Paris late next month and experts say especially hot summer weather is likely to return. Temperatures set record highs in Europe last summer and France's national weather agency says it expects warmer than normal condit...
The largest digital camera ever built for space scientists is ready to be put in place under the clear skies of northern Chile. The camera can produce images above 3.2 gigapixels in size and weighs nearly three tons. A pixel is the smallest area of d...
South Korea has created a new national space agency to increase its capabilities and is aiming for a future Mars landing. President Yoon Suk Yeol recently announced the establishment of the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA). He said the country p...
Agriculture companies are using new methods to change the genes of plants to produce more productive crops. The process of gene-editing is gaining attention from people interested in agriculture. It makes changes to the existing genes of a plant, suc...
Chinese space officials say a spacecraft has successfully collected samples from the moon and is headed back toward Earth. The unmanned spacecraft, called Chang'e-6, touched down on the lunar surface on Sunday. It launched May 3 from a Chinese space...
Boeing launched astronauts into space with its delayed Starliner spacecraft for the first time Wednesday. The launch marked the company's entry into competition with SpaceX to provide service for the American space agency NASA. NASA test pilots Butch...
Very small organisms that live in the world's farm fields release nitrous oxide gas. Some scientists link the gas to climate change. They are looking for a way to deal with the issue. Now, some researchers think they have found bacteria that can help...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft visited a little asteroid called Dinkinesh last November. The visit, scientists say, unlocks a surprisingly interesting history of the asteroid along with its companion, Selam. Asteroids are ancient objects from the beginning o...
