Author: Scientific American

Before NASA’s moon mission launched, experts sounded the alarm over the Orion capsule’s heat shield and reentry. Now splashdown is just one day away

The Artemis II spacecraft is due to splashdown on April 10, and NASA officials and the astronauts on board are gearing up for that return

Ghost Murmur was described as a futuristic CIA tool that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances. Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing

The weight you lose and the nausea you experience from GLP-1 drugs may be linked to common gene variants, but they can’t fully explain why some people lose more weight than others

After decades of planning, NASA’s Artemis program is giving astronomers their long-awaited moonshot

The astronauts of Artemis II phoned home—and the International Space Station—between stretches of overdue rest on day seven of the mission

A hidden milestone lurks in the U.S.’s Artemis-focused lunar ambitions—the nation’s first-ever successful robotic moon rover

As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the research is divided on whether those biases persist outside the lab and in real-world interactions

A sharp rise in U.S. measles cases is linked to falling MMR vaccination rates and growing immunity gaps

The exchange between the Artemis II crew and astronauts onboard the International Space Station marks the first time a moon mission has called an orbital habitat