Science

As big as Starship is, it was originally going to be bigger.In 2016, Elon Musk was dropping hints of a giant new spacecraft that would take people — lots of them —...

For the tens of thousands of astrophotographers, eclipse chasers and cosmically minded tourists contemplating the best site from which to view Thursday’s total solar eclipse, the town of Exmouth, perched on a...

SpaceX’s first attempt on Monday to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, was called off. That is not unusual — many flights of new rockets are scrubbed multiple times during...

In a nod to the ongoing risk the coronavirus poses to millions of Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Wednesday that adults 65 and older and those with...

Many of the signs of aging are invisible, slow, and subtle — changes in cell division capacity, cardiac output and kidney function don’t exactly show up in the mirror. But gray hairs...

WASHINGTON — On the Chinese coast, just 135 miles from Taiwan, Beijing is preparing to start a new reactor the Pentagon sees as delivering fuel for a vast expansion of China’s nuclear...

OBSERVATORIO LAS CAMPANAS, Chile — Caminar entre los domos del observatorio del desierto de Atacama es como si tu cabellera rozara las estrellas.El desierto de Atacama, una meseta en lo alto de...

People infected with the coronavirus were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes within a year of their infection, compared with those who had not been exposed to the...

The NewsThe Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved an additional round of bivalent booster shots for adults who are 65 and over as well as people with compromised immune systems. The...

LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, Chile — To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars.The Atacama, on a plateau high in the Chilean Andes,...