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'Major lunar standstill' may reveal if Stonehenge ...
Is Stonehenge aligned with the moon? Scientists hope to find out during a rare 'major lunar standsti...
Has the biggest problem in cosmology finally been ...
For decades, cosmologists have been fighting over the Hubble constant, a number that represents the ...
White dwarfs are 'heavy metal' zombie stars endles...
Zombie white dwarf stars keep their heavy metal exteriors fresh by constantly cannibalizing any smal...
SpaceX fires up Starship rocket for upcoming 5th t...
SpaceX ignited the engines on the upper stage of its fifth Starship vehicle today (May 8), even thou...
Ruko Veeniix V11 drone review
The Ruko Veeniix V11 is a basic model full of promise but, unfortunately, doesn't quite deliver.
How to reconnect with long-lost friends, according...
We are generally as reluctant to contact a long-lost friend as we are to talk to a stranger, but sci...
Blinded by the light: How bad are satellite megaco...
The emergence of satellite megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink offers great benefits for human...
DeepMind is experimenting with a nearly indestruct...
A new robotic hand can withstand being smashed by pistons or walloped with a hammer. It was designed...
Being in two places at once could make a quantum b...
The quantum principle of superposition – the idea of particles being in multiple places at once – co...
Boeing's Starliner rolled off launch pad to replac...
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was rolled off the launch pad today (May 8) to replace a misbehaving v...
A failed star and an ammonia trail could reveal ho...
The James Webb Space Telescope is teaching us about how planets form.
World's largest visible light telescope spies a ga...
New images from the VLT Survey Telescope will help scientists learn about galaxy pasts, and perhaps ...
SpaceX launching 20 satellites from California ton...
SpaceX is set to launch 20 Starlink internet satellites tonight (May 8), on the second leg of a spac...
Star Wars makes Darth Jar Jar official in 'Lego St...
One of the Star Wars fandom's most infamous memes is joining the Star Wars canon (kind of) in this L...
NASA's TESS spacecraft resumes exoplanet hunt afte...
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is back in action after nine days in safe mode, returning t...
Who were the enigmatic Sea Peoples blamed for the ...
Around 3000 years ago, several empires and kingdoms in the Mediterranean collapsed, with a group of ...
Global capacity to directly suck CO2 from air has ...
A new plant in Iceland operated by the firm Climeworks can remove up to 36,000 tonnes of carbon diox...
DeepMind AI can predict how drugs interact with pr...
The latest version of the AlphaFold AI can help biologists predict how proteins interact with each o...
Axiom Space eyes the moon while continuing to drea...
Axiom Space, which was founded in 2016, has already organized three private crewed missions to the I...
Psychedelic toxins from toads could treat depressi...
A compound emitted by the Colorado river toad may reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression in a sim...
This diamond exoplanet lost its atmosphere — then ...
55 Cancri e is a super-Earth planet that appears composed of diamond-like carbon — now, thanks to th...
China just sent a secret mini-rover to the far sid...
A tiny, previously undisclosed lunar rover has been spotted strapped to the side of China's moon-bou...
Sun explodes in a flurry of powerful solar flares ...
Watch the sun explode in a fury as it unleashes yet another barrage of solar flares, including two o...
China's Chang'e 6 mission to moon's far side enter...
China's Chang'e 6 has entered orbit around the moon ahead of its upcoming landing attempt on the lun...
The 'forever chemicals' toxic to your health - and...
From your popcorn bag to your waterproof jacket, forever chemicals are all around us. We're finally ...
Private lunar lander to carry 'memory disk' of 275...
ispace will send a time capsule of 275 human languages to the moon aboard a lunar lander as part of ...
SpaceX launching 23 satellites from Florida today ...
SpaceX is set to launch 23 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida today (May 8), on the fi...
Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animat...
Black hole week is on, and to celebrate NASA is taking us on a way to plunge past the event horizon ...
Ultrasonic coffee-maker produces the perfect cold ...
Cold-brewing coffee can reduce its bitter taste, but it normally takes up to 24 hours as the grounds...
1st astronaut launch of Boeing's Starliner delayed...
The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has been pushed to May 17 so teams can repl...
Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuc...
Concern over the risks of enabling nuclear weapons development is usually focused on nuclear fission...
Can genetically modifying a rare marsupial save it...
Researchers are aiming to make the northern quoll resistant to the toxic cane toads wiping it out in...
Hottest April on record is the 11th record-breakin...
Global temperatures in April 2024 were 1.6°C higher than the average for April during the pre-indust...
Longest-living cat breeds revealed by life expecta...
Birman and Burmese cats typically live for more than 14 years while sphynxes live less than half as ...
