April 27, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends first images from Saturn rings dive NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back stunning images from its historic dive between Saturn and its rings.
April 27, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft prepares to dive between Saturn and its rings NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its historic dive between Saturn and its famous rings early on Wednesday.
April 27, 2017 Frozen in time: DNA may ID sailors looking for Northwest Passage in 1845 Scientists have extracted DNA from the skeletal remains of several 19th-century sailors who died during the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, whose goal was to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage.
April 26, 2017 NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson to star in first 4K live video from space NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will star in the first ever 4K live video broadcast from space on Wednesday.
April 26, 2017 The wreckage of a mysterious ancient planet is orbiting Mars, astronomers discover Astronomers believe fragments of a mysterious lost world are locked in orbit around Mars.
April 25, 2017 Beekeeper's surprise find may help our plastic problem Many scientific discoveries can be attributed to a happy accident—the discovery of penicillin thanks to moldy petri dishes, for instance.
April 25, 2017 Drone swarms deployed in aerial dogfight test Experts at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School have deployed drone swarms in a first-of-its-kind aerial dogfight test.
April 25, 2017 Earliest dental fillings discovered in 13,000-year-old skeleton You might wince at the sight of your dentist holding an electric drill over your mouth.
April 24, 2017 Declaration of Independence discovery stuns experts Harvard researchers were initially skeptical when a database project indicated that an extremely rare parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence was in a small records office in Southern England.
April 24, 2017 No aliens yet for $100 million ET hunt A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has come up with some intriguing leads but has revealed no evidence of E.T. so far.