The robotic space probe is 15 billion miles away and is nearing the end of its life in the distant cosmos

Astronomers are circling the answers

The total solar eclipse in 2024 hushed the Earth by striking awe in the humans in its path

Celebrating the scientific and technical contributions of Rome on the mythical birthday of the eternal city

Leonardo da Vinci, polymath and victim of the vagaries of science funding, was born on this day

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death

The closer to home, the better

Why it’s good to be bored

You’re never really by yourself in nature

The day of environmental action and protest has grown and evolved over the past 56 years

The effects of cocaine pollution in the world’s waterways

We may get an exceptionally strong El Niño this year, but we’ve been tracking the climatic cycle since 1578

It’s named for a Chinese philosopher

Here there be monsters

How about an ice cream cone with a dirt chaser?

A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice

Is it absurd to think that science can inform our values?

Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it