A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road

Ingrid Daubechies , a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the ...

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Think You Understand Your Dog? Think Again.

Dogs can’t talk, but their body language speaks volumes. Many dogs will bow when they want to play, for instance, or lick the...

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Starship Explosions Show SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity

For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet. Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most ...

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Intuitive Machines Athena Moon Lander Dies After Toppling Over

A day after landing on the moon , the robotic Athena spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines of Houston is dead. In an updat...

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Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Is on the Moon, but Its Fate Is Unclear

Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface...

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What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish

In May 2023, Matteo Santon was filming cuttlefish in the shallow-water reefs around Indonesia. A marine visual ecologist at...

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How to Watch Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Moon Landing

The moon will be a busy place this year. There are three robotic spacecraft in space right now that are aiming to set down ...

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What if You Could Taste Food From 1,000 Miles Away?

Imagine you are video chatting with a distant friend who is eating lunch, and your pal’s sandwich looks delicious. What if yo...

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How to Watch the Launch of Intuitive Machines’s Second Moon Landing Mission

Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright...

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A Parade of Planets Is Marching Through the Night Sky

Astute skywatchers may have already seen the striking line of planets across the night sky in January. This week Mercury join...

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