With one snapshot, Apollo 17 transformed our vision of Earth forever

Fifty years ago, an astronaut on the Apollo 17 mission snapped a pic of the Earth in its entirety. Space photography hasn't been the same.

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A surgeon looked at 7 clitorises under a microscope and found they're packed with 10,000 nerve fibers. It could be a game-changing discovery.

Gender-affirming surgeon and nerve researcher Blair Peters is the first person to quantify the number of nerve fibers in the human clitoris. Until now, sex researchers and educators have said the clitoris has an estimated 8,000 nerve fibers, but that well-cited number comes from a study on cows' genitals, which is mentioned in "The Clitoris," a book published in 1976.

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Convictions remain rare when police are accused of sexual assault

Over the past few years, social movements from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter have raised awareness of sexual violence, police brutality and systemic racism. Police-involved sexual assault — sexual violence that is committed by police officers — sits at the intersection of these two important political movements. Our research suggests that sexual violence by police is more common than many might think.

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50 years since the last Apollo astronauts went to the moon, NASA is finally going back

December 7, 1972 was the launch of the final mission in NASA's Apollo moon program. Fifty years later, NASA finally seems poised to return people to the lunar surface.

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Unidentified Interstellar Bids Goodbye To Solar System, Leaves Mystery Behind

Oumuamua's speed and trajectory revealed it originated outside the solar system, making it the first known interstellar object.

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Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.

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Elon Musk Shows Off Monkey That Can Type With Brain Implant Instead of Typewriter

During a show and tell, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off what his brain computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink has been working on.

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