Science
Hubble Space Telescope is in safe mode — but scien...
The Hubble Space Telescope has entered an automatic safe mode due to gyroscope difficulties, but sci...
Powerful 'Cannibal' solar burst will hit Earth ton...
A 'Cannibal' plasma eruption from the sun will hit Earth on Dec. 1. Scientists predict strong geomag...
Asteroid Phaethon's mysterious tail may finally ha...
Spectral analysis of the mystery asteroid Phaethon reveals its composition at last.
Our solar system's planets aren't weird after all....
All solar system planets circle our sun with slightly tilted orbits — and a new study shows even dis...
Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El ...
El Niño is in full swing and will likely remain "strong" this winter, but its effect on weather patt...
Earth-like planets may form even in harsh environm...
The James Webb Space Telescope has found water and organic carbon molecules in the vicinity of a mas...
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones...
A 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy, has yielded the first archaeological evidence of cann...
The music you should play at a party to ensure con...
It is easier to focus on conversations when background music is playing if the song is unfamiliar to...
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as qu...
The sound of pouring water into a cup can be tamped down by changing the height of the pour or the d...
Our neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy shines overhead ...
Located at a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is readily visible to the una...
COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern...
The COP28 climate summit kicked off with a report on the many records broken in 2023, including unpr...
The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided m...
ISS astronauts watch Russian cargo ship burn up in...
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli watched Russia's Progress MS-23 cargo ship burn up in Earth's atmosph...
Cannabis probably doesn't help you sleep better
Many people take cannabis to help them sleep, but there is little evidence that the drug makes a dif...
Watch Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket fire its engine...
A newly released video from the European Space Agency highlights a recent wet dress rehearsal for th...
Artemis 2 moon astronauts autograph their own rock...
Just one year before flying around the moon, the Artemis 2 astronauts autographed a part of the mass...
Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long befo...
Ancient footprints found in Lesotho resemble those left by birds, but they were made around 60 milli...
China releases 1st images of complete Tiangong spa...
The crew of China's Shenzhou 16 mission captured incredible images of the Tiangong Space Station as ...
Satellites watch world's largest iceberg break awa...
The world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, has broken loose and is moving past the northern tip of ...
Firefly Aerospace's new rocket engine spouts green...
Firefly Aerospace shared a photo of the first hot fire test of its new Miranda engine, slated for us...
Ancient life thrived after supercontinents trapped...
There is a surprisingly close link between the flow of nutrient-rich soil around the ancient world a...
Crystal-hunting DeepMind AI could help discover ne...
We know of around 48,000 inorganic crystal structures, which provide materials with a range of prope...
Scientists just found a planet-forming disk beyond...
Astronomers have spotted an accretion disk feeding matter to a young star and helping it grow in a g...
A single bitcoin transaction uses enough water to ...
The environmental impact of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is increasingly being scrutinised, du...
Six planets found orbiting a bright star 100 light...
The orbits of six planets around the star HD 110067 have been in a fixed pattern for billions of yea...
This rare exoplanet system has 6 'sub-Neptunes' wi...
A newfound, and impressively well-maintained, planetary system full of sub-Neptunes could reveal why...
The wonder particle: How axions could solve more t...
Physicists are coming to realise that hypothetical particles called axions could explain not only da...
Elon Musk, Israel agree on use of Starlink satelli...
Elon Musk traveled to Israel on Monday (Nov. 27) and met with Israeli government officials, reaching...
Strong auroras likely as powerful solar flare erup...
Several powerful solar eruptions, with Earth in the firing line, means widespread mid-latitude auror...
COP28: These are the key clean energy targets the ...
Momentum is building for an agreement at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to triple renewable energ...
SpaceX rockets keep tearing blood-red 'atmospheric...
Experts are concerned that these blood-red light shows could be causing unknown problems for astrono...
Key molecule for life may have formed on interstel...
Some scientists suspect that amino acids were transported to Earth by meteorites. A team has now fou...
Rocket Lab to return to flight with Electron launc...
Rocket Lab is gearing up for the 42nd launch of its Electron rocket, which has been grounded since a...
Over the past six years, governments proposed laun...
As the number of satellites in orbit increase, so will the possibilities of space debris. There are ...
This Antarctic glacier dramatically retreated. The...
This might indicate a "glaciological tipping point" on the Antarctic Peninsula, an important conside...
Will carbon dioxide removal tech help or hinder cl...
Billions of dollars are pouring into the carbon dioxide removal industry, which aims to clean up emi...
Dark matter may be hiding in the Large Hadron Coll...
A new study helped scientists better constrain the possible properties of dark matter particles.
James Webb Space Telescope spies a newborn star in...
The James Webb Space Telescope stared through the gas and dust surrounding an infant star around 1,0...
Exoplanet 'haze' makes it harder to identify water...
Planetary scientists simulate how haze might be obstructing our view of exoplanet's atmospheres, and...
