Believe it or not, it's suddenly time for us to start thinking about the best movies of the year again. Here are the best movies of 2026 (so far).

We spoke to a genuine astrophysicist about the accuracy of Star Trek's approach to interstellar travel, the holodeck, and the transporter.

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the latest work points to a much earlier cutoff than the classic textbook ...

Without the Moon, Earth’s geology, biology, and climate — as well as human philosophy — would be different in many significant ways. If Earth had no Moon, the postulated origin of the Moon through a ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...

Sometimes, you need to fly a mile with another animal’s wings. Or … smell … a cave full of snakes … with another creature’s nose. OK, we should have stopped ...

There are some hits and misses in the archive, plus some new gems. One of the early highlights during the mission was the “Hello, world” image captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as the ...

Using nearly a decade of satellite observations, NASA's Black Marble project reveals a constantly shifting portrait of human ...

Editor's note: The full "Flower Moon" has come and gone, delighting skywatchers with a dazzling display of natural light as it climbed over the southeastern horizon on May 1. Check out our May 2026 ...

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield ...

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