Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

Researchers in China have built small triangular modules that change their own dimensions, steer themselves toward a partner and lock together with magnets. According to Universe Today, the lab demonstration is an early step toward robots t

A full-scale mockup of the European Space Agency's Space Rider, the continent's planned first reusable spacecraft, crashed during a drop test on Oct. 6 after its main steerable parachute came off while opening, Space.com reported. ESA says

Almost every shallow-water coral reef system on Earth faces an extremely high risk of collapse before 2075 because of global warming, according to a new assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the group that advi

For a few minutes during NASA's Artemis II flight around the moon, the mission's commander believed something had gone badly wrong. Reid Wiseman told an audience at the Starmus VIII festival in Tenerife, Spain, earlier this week that the di

The swirling sky in Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" may be a real view after all. A new study suggests it shows the pre-dawn sky seen from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence around July 22, 1889, with a waning crescent moon, Venus and the Hyades

A cabin leak warning came close to cutting short NASA’s Artemis II mission to the moon, pilot Victor Glover said, according to Space.com. The alarm sounded around 15 minutes before the engine burn that would send the crew toward the moon, a

Astronomers think the Milky Way holds between about 100 million and 1 billion black holes left behind by collapsed massive stars, and a few of them may sit in the Sun's immediate neighborhood. A new study in The Astrophysical Journal descri

The herpes simplex virus, HSV-1, appears to reprogram the brain’s resident immune cells, according to a new mouse study. ScienceAlert reported that the finding may help explain how the virus contributes to the inflammation seen in diseases

A newly analyzed fossil from a cave site in South Africa suggests that Homo erectus, an early human ancestor, appeared in southern Africa about 2 million years ago. That is roughly 200,000 years earlier than the species' emergence was previ

President Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday that he should have received a Pulitzer Prize for writing, and he criticized the journalists who won the award for covering the Russia investigation. India Tod

A wreck lying on the seabed off the Devon coast in England, long assumed to be a sunken First World War sailing vessel, has turned out to be a German submarine from the Second World War, according to Newswav. A dive team says the clues poin

Solar flares can interfere with radio signals, GPS and power grids, yet the explosions behind them happen in a part of the Sun that is hard to watch. A new study in The Astrophysical Journal describes a way to read what is going on there by