This iconic shot from the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon shows the fabled Man in the Moon embedded with a massive, bullet-like spacecraft that was launched from Earth by a giant cannon. (Credit:…

New research into the genetic backstory of ancient French grapevines reveals that some varieties cultivated today haven’t changed for centuries. (Credit: Victor Grigas/Wikimedia Commons)Consider this the next time you toast a friend and wish them…

Heavy rains and flooding through the winter and spring have left fields across the Midwest too wet to plant. (Credit: Matauw/Shutterstock)Every spring, farmers across the Midwest take to the fields to plant their crops. Here,…

The South Pole-Aitken basin shows up clearly as low-lying blue in a topographical map of the moon, with the newly discovered mass located underneath the dotted line. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona)Buried under…

Telescopes at Lowell Observatory in Arizona captured this image of galaxies on May 25, their images marred by the reflected light from more than 25 Starlink satellites as they passed overhead. (Credit: Victoria Girgis/Lowell Observatory)Elon…

(Credit: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock)The pursuit of science is usually an unending stream of embarrassments for the human ego. No, the sun doesn’t revolve around us. No, we’re not all that different from common animals. No,…

Did Sue the T. rex and other members of the species have a great sense of smell? (Credit: The Field Museum)As fascinating and awe-inspiring as fossils are, the ancient bones tell us only so much…

A power superflare fries an exoplanet in the star’s system. (Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player)Astronomers have learned over the past decade that even large solar flares — powerful bursts of radiation — from our…