Science
Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky W...
A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per seco...
'Primordial' helium from the birth of the solar sy...
The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of ...
Sex may have evolved as a way to pool resources du...
How sexual reproduction came about has long been a mystery, but an evolutionary model suggests it co...
Our best binoculars under $300 are now even better...
Get the Celestron TrailSeeker 8x42 for their best price in over a year — a fantastic pair of binocul...
Water mining on the moon may be easier than expect...
Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles "are not only scientifically interesting b...
Blackbird deaths point to looming West Nile virus ...
Mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus could become a growing concern in the UK and other nort...
What's the difference between a solar eclipse and ...
We explore the celestial geometry that explains different kinds of eclipses of the sun and the moon....
Watch fiery SpaceX Starship Flight 8 debris rain d...
The upper stage of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket exploded over the Atlantic Ocean this evening (Marc...
SpaceX loses Starship upper stage again, but catch...
SpaceX managed to catch the Super Heavy booster on Starship's eighth test flight today (March 6), bu...
The Athena lander reached the moon – but seems to ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft has landed on the surface of the moon, but it seems to have fa...
Experts say US flights are safe now but flag warni...
Flying commercially in the US remains low risk despite a recent mid-air collision, near misses and j...
Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in...
AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first privat...
The US may start vaccinating chickens and cows aga...
The US Department of Agriculture announced it will allocate $100 million to develop vaccines and oth...
Intuitive Machines lands near lunar south pole, bu...
Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, landed near the moon's south pole today (Marc...
Private Blue Ghost lander spotted on the moon by N...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an exciting view of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost land...
7 fascinating facts about lunar eclipses
From fiery 'blood moons' to ancient legends, discover the surprising science and history behind luna...
Birds' nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic f...
Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the mater...
Low on power and spinning out of control, NASA's L...
It's been a week since NASA lost contact with its new water-hunting moon satellite.
DNA-busting radiation from star-killing supernova ...
A distant star-killing supernova could have bombarded Earth with radiation strong enough to shift th...
Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from ...
In a record-breaking test, researchers remotely detected radioactive material by shooting it with in...
Mars may have a solid inner core just like Earth
New research based on an iron and sulphur mixture mirroring the Red Planet’s inner core suggests tha...
Two huge black holes merged into one and went flyi...
A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at ...
NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend li...
NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin space...
1st American robotic lunar rover set to land on th...
Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar s...
Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally h...
It is impossible for us to know exactly how another person's experience of the world compares to our...
Total lunar eclipse is just one week away: When an...
One week until a total lunar eclipse on March 13 turns the moon blood red. Here's everything you nee...
The private Athena moon lander will touch down nea...
Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is scheduled to touch down near the moon's south pole today (March...
Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low
Sea ice cover in both the Antarctic and Arctic remained far below average throughout February as glo...
Varda space capsule returns to Earth in 1st commer...
Varda Space has successfully landed a reentry capsule in Australia, delivering critical data that co...
Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacteria...
Bacterial vaginosis, which is caused by bacteria overgrowing in the vagina, can be hard to treat, wi...
Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' ...
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determ...
