It’s been 60 years, to the day, since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel to space in a tiny capsule attached to an R-7 ballistic missile, a powerful rocket originally designed to carry a 3-5 megaton nuclear warhead...
The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it’s going next
The slumping ice is moving 50 to 100 times faster than usual
The reasons may include women’s roles as caregivers and their greater likelihood of seeking out preventive health care in general
A fast-growing front in the battle against climate change is focused on developing green technologies aimed at reducing humankind’s carbon footprint, but many scientists say simply reducing emissions is no longer enough...
Bill Nelson, Biden’s nominee, exemplifies the agency’s pork-barrel, male-dominated past
It’s time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed
Researchers are searching for possible links between unusual clotting and the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
Climate change and other environmental threats are destabilizing these vital areas and helping drive mass northward migration
Despite what we see in the headlines, the data-driven optimist thinks we should be grateful to live in the best era in humanity’s long, troubled history
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