Science
What is the most distant thing we can see?
To the unaided human eye, the night sky is resplendent with over 9,000 individual points of light, b...
These four common medicines could help prolong you...
Viagra, HRT, a statin and a painkiller slightly lowered people’s chances of dying over a 12-year stu...
Blue tits shared a tree hollow with bird-eating ba...
A pair of blue tits were seen nesting in a tree cavity that was also inhabited by about 25 greater n...
Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem t...
Birthrates are projected to have fallen below the replacement level, of 2.1 per woman, in more than ...
SpaceX's Starship could fly again as soon as early...
SpaceX hopes to launch the fourth test flight of its Starship megarocket just six weeks or so from n...
China launches satellite to support future moon mi...
China launched a relay satellite towards the moon atop a Long March 8 rocket this week after a previ...
1 in 12 stars might have swallowed a planet
A new study suggests that stars may chomp on planets way more often than you'd expect.
Whee! Zip down from the launch tower in SpaceX's n...
SpaceX has given us an astronaut's-eye view of the company's new emergency-escape slide in action at...
Wage interplanetary war in upcoming space strategy...
A new gameplay trailer for the upcoming indie real-time strategy game "Falling Frontier," which task...
Extinct freshwater dolphin from the Amazon was lar...
A dolphin that lived in the Amazon 16 million years ago grew to a length of 3.5 metres – larger than...
7 things to buy to safely watch and photograph the...
The forthcoming total solar eclipse promises to be the most watched and imaged for decades.
Ancient canoes hint at bustling trade in Mediterra...
Italian canoes capable of transporting people and goods have been dated to the Neolithic period, sug...
Watch Rocket Lab launch mysterious US spy satellit...
Rocket Lab will launch a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office early Thursday morning ...
Celestron AstroMaster 102AZ telescope review
This versatile beginner's telescope is suitable for astronomy and wildlife viewing. It has nice-qual...
'Constellation' season 1 episode 7 review: Fumblin...
The penultimate episode of 'Constellation' runs in circles before finding its way towards an emotion...
Helping build instrument for Japanese Mars mission...
NASA engineers just delivered a Mars instrument to Japan for a future mission. New NASA astronaut An...
Billions of stars have swallowed up a planet
Twin stars that were born together should have the same composition, and the fact that many don’t su...
Ancient campsite may show how humans survived volc...
Evidence from an archaeological site in Ethiopia suggests ancient humans adapted their diet during a...
How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending...
From the many worlds interpretation to panpsychism, theories of reality often sound absurd. Here’s h...
Scientists find galaxy supercluster as massive as ...
Astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 662 new galactic superclusters, the most prominent o...
Watch Russian Soyuz rocket launch 3 spaceflyers to...
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three people, including one NASA astronaut, toward the Internatio...
Flying drone can roll on the ground to save energy...
Researchers claim to have combined the benefits of rolling robots with those of flying drones by cre...
Doomed egg-shaped exoplanet is death-spiraling int...
WASP-12b, an ultrahot Jupiter planet molded into the shape of an egg, is set to nose-dive into its s...
NASA, SpaceX ready to launch 30th cargo mission to...
SpaceX is scheduled to launch its 30th operational cargo mission to the International Space Station ...
Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sens...
Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probability theory and the ext...
Arrokoth the 'space snowman' and other Kuiper Belt...
"Space snowman" Arrokoth a other Kuiper Belt objects may contain locked-up ancient ice and gas, sugg...
Artists who use AI are more productive but less or...
An analysis of work posted on a popular art-sharing website finds that users who adopted generative ...
Human brains have been mysteriously preserved for ...
Intact human brains 12,000 years old or more have been found in unexpected places such as shipwrecks...
Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals lif...
A settlement in the east of England burned down in a fire 3000 years ago, falling into a muddy water...
CRISPR could disable and cure HIV, suggests promis...
The gene-editing strategy could be a way to disable HIV that lies dormant in immune cells, meaning p...
DARPA picks Northrop Grumman to develop 'lunar rai...
Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman is outlining a proposed railway system for the moon, with support f...
Full Worm Moon brings 1st lunar eclipse of 2024 ne...
Two weeks before the total solar eclipse, during the overnight hours of March 24 - 25, it will be th...
A new ultrablack coating for telescopes could brin...
Next-gen telescopes could see a much clearer picture using a new thin film coating that's incredibly...
SpaceX's evening Starlink launch wows West Coast s...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 lit up the night sky March 18, when the expanding plume from the rocket's high-alt...
Watch rockin' new trailer for Zack Snyder's 'Rebel...
A new trailer and poster for "Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver" have been released ahead of the ...
Citizen scientists and AI take a cosmic cruise to ...
With the help of artificial intelligence, amateur scientists have discovered more than 400,000 new g...
Common antibiotics can regenerate heart cells in a...
A combination of widely available antibiotics may be able to treat heart failure after researchers f...
3D map of over 1 million black holes traces where ...
Nearly 1.3 million quasars are included in a vast cosmic map, with the most distant having existed j...
The dark side of the Force rises in 1st 'Star Wars...
Disney and Lucasfilm have finally unveiled the first-ever public trailer for the upcoming Disney Plu...
DeepMind and Liverpool FC develop AI to advise on ...
An AI model trained on data from Premier League matches can help football coaches devise tactics for...
