Science
James Webb Space Telescope spies 'inside-out' star...
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed 'inside-out' star formation in a galaxy just 700 million...
The key ingredients for life on Earth came from sp...
The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies cal...
Gravity may explain why Neanderthals failed to ado...
Spear-throwing tools called atlatls allow humans to launch projectiles over great distances, but Nea...
Hints of volcanic moon around alien planet may be ...
A sodium cloud detected in the vicinity of an exoplanet named WASP-49 b hints at the presence of a n...
How the evolution of citrus is inextricably linked...
Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost a gene for producing vitamin C and got a taste for citrus....
Stool test could provide a simpler way to diagnose...
A chemical produced by gut bacteria could be the basis for a non-invasive test for endometriosis – a...
Nearby exoplanet is a 1st-of-its-kind 'steam world...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found a "first of its kind" world, an exoplan...
France slashed bird flu outbreaks by vaccinating d...
A vaccination campaign targeting ducks, the farm birds most at risk of getting and spreading bird fl...
Space Force's mysterious X-37B space plane to atte...
The U.S. military's X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a ...
Nabta Playa: A mysterious stone circle that may be...
Nabta Playa in Egypt is an ancient stone circle that researchers suspect was used to determine the s...
New Artemis moon camera gets 1st field test (photo...
Recently, an international team took the HULC moon camera out for a test drive in lunar-like conditi...
'It was 3 hours of magic': Spectacular auroras thr...
A powerful geomagnetic storm illuminated auroras that lit the skies over Earth on Thursday (Oct. 9) ...
Starship: When will SpaceX's next 'chopstick' test...
SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federa...
Hubble Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe team...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Ura...
Elon Musk's Tesla Cybercab is a hollow promise of ...
Autonomous taxis are already operating on US streets, while Elon Musk has spent years promising a se...
Millions of websites could be impacted by UK deal ...
The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the ex...
Cosmic rays have surprising amounts of antimatter....
There's too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this...
Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lak...
In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the N...
Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' careen...
Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home s...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble...
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen Jupiter's Great Red Spot oscillating in width as it drifts aroun...
Hopes dim for another bright October comet after T...
There's been talk of another spectacular comet putting on a show in our sky after Tsuchinshan-ATLAS....
Solar storm bombarding Earth now may reach 'extrem...
A severe solar storm sparked by an intense flare from the sun could reach "extreme" levels as it bom...
Tiniest 'ruler' ever measures distances as small a...
A new technique uses glowing molecules, laser light and microscopes to measure distances as minuscul...
Europa Clipper probe secured as Hurricane Milton s...
The Europa Clipper probe rode out the arrival of Hurricane Milton Oct. 9 inside a SpaceX hangar, as ...
Monstrous Hurricane Milton captured in 4K video by...
New cameras aboard the International Space Station captured stunning 4k views of Hurricane Milton as...
Chinese astronauts zoom in on their nation's launc...
In a new video, China's Shenzhou 18 astronauts zoom in on their nation's launch sites from the Tiang...
Post-Prime Day telescope deal: 34% off the Celestr...
The Celestron NexStar 4SE is one of the best telescopes on the market and now it's at its lowest pri...
There could be 30,000 species of earthworms wriggl...
Nearly 6000 species and subspecies of earthworms have been identified by scientists – but the true n...
What's inside the moon? Gravity measurements sugge...
In between the moon's solid core and external surface may swirl a partially molten layer of rock.
Scientists discover bright 'sungrazer' comet that ...
Newfound comet C/2024 S1 will light up Earth's skies in late October before a super close slingshot ...
Phew! No 'doomsday' asteroids hide in famous broke...
The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, responsible for two November meteor showers and possibly the Tunguska a...
Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of...
The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemi...
