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The polar vortex is about to go haywire

"Everybody's hair is on fire in the climate or meteorologist community"

NASA’s Swift telescope plunges back to Earth

The observatory had spent decades studying powerful cosmic explosions and was the target of an unsuccessful rescue mission earlier this year

Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’s

Researchers and advocates say they hope the "blue wave" could signal more accountability after two years of attacks on science

Could SpaceX’s retirement of Falcon 9 spark a launch crisis?

What happens when the most successful rocket in history stops flying? The world is about to find out

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is wobbly—scientists have a fix that could reveal new alien worlds

By modeling the James Webb Space Telescope's tiny movements, a new technique can reveal up to 15 times fainter alien worlds

What a historic ‘blue wave’ midterm means for climate action

Democrats swept Congress and won in red states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters and data centers

Beverly Whipple Has Died. She Introduced the G-Spot to the Mainstream.

RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN

Dr. Whipple studied the female erogenous zone and, with collaborators, wrote a best seller about women’s sexuality. She was 85.

2026 election results show widespread opposition to AI data centers

Across 10 states this Election Day, voters overwhelmingly backed restrictions on data center development or rejected measures that would have eased their construction

The Southwest Is Parched. Can the Recent Floodwaters Quench It?

SCOTT DANCE

A series of storms has added to reservoirs in the Colorado River basin, but the long-term water outlook remains bleak.

How George Clinton’s Mothership landed onstage in 1976

Fifty years after its spectacular debut, George Clinton's smoke-spewing spaceship remains a marvel of live-music technology and Afrofuturist imagination

Tiny Chihuahuas Hold a Big Surprise: A Sliver of Coyote DNA

FRANZ LIDZ

The breed is descended from indigenous canines, which may have been intentionally mixed with wild coyotes long before Europeans arrived in the Americas.

A NASA Telescope Has Crashed Back to Earth

KENNETH CHANG

The space agency estimated that there was a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could injure someone on the ground.

Hundreds of stunning ice age drawings discovered inside Spanish cave

The find includes 280 engravings, including 55 depictions of animals

These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 2026 midterms

Learn more about the scientific community coming into office in January

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is changing the color of the ocean

The ocean's blue and green hues near the infamous zone of debris have gotten brighter over the past 20 years, satellite data show