Science
Will Starship launch from foreign shores? SpaceX '...
SpaceX just revealed that it's on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, ...
Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling i...
A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that t...
What flings mysteriously powerful particles called...
High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strong...
Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thous...
A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing ca...
Astrophotographer captures remarkable view of gala...
The string of galaxies is just a small part of the colossal Virgo Galaxy Cluster
Blue Origin's lunar lander mockup is ready for NAS...
A mockup of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 2 lunar lander has been assembled at the Johnson Space Cent...
Asteroid to miss Earth by a quarter of the length ...
Asteroid 2026JH2 will zoom past Earth at a distance of only 90,000 kilometres next week. It has enou...
Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle th...
After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in h...
Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and...
Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belon...
Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made b...
Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafi...
'Smallville' at 15: An imperfect Superman show, bu...
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's non-canonical Superman!
Lasers shine a new light on the space junk air pol...
Scientists are using a new technique to study incoming space debris and its effects on Earth's atmos...
The Whirlpool Galaxy comes alive | Space photo of ...
M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, looks incredible in this new snap by the James Webb Space T...
30-mile-high clouds of acid on Venus are made by t...
A 3,700-mile-long cloud bank on Venus forms through the same phenomenon that describes how water spr...
New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK...
Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release informati...
'Like putting a microscope into the core of the su...
The world's first space-based neutrino detector launched to space this month to study elusive neutri...
Cost estimate for 'Golden Dome' missile defense sy...
It will likely cost about $1.2 trillion to develop and operate President Trump's planned "Golden Dom...
SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket finally has a debu...
SpaceX is officially targeting May 19 for the debut of Starship Version 3, an advanced new vehicle t...
Uranus and Neptune could be full of rocks, new stu...
"Rather than 'icy' or 'rocky,' we should simply call them minor giants."
Cowboy Space raises $275 million to launch AI data...
The newly rebranded Cowboy Space Corp. will use the money to develop and operate AI data centers in ...
'Cannibal stars,' AI and the Rubin Observatory cou...
Using AI and Rubin Observatory data, scientists are rethinking Type 1a supernova "standard candles,"...
Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are ...
Don't miss Mars, Saturn and the moon form a cosmic...
The razor-thin crescent moon meets Saturn and Mars in the glow of the rising sun on May 14.
Watch SpaceX launch 6,500 pounds of cargo to the I...
SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station this evening (May...
NASA's Psyche asteroid probe will fly within 3,000...
NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to g...
Mesmerizing vortexes swirl near an Antarctic volca...
The arctic winds have created something truly stunning.
Star Catcher just raised $65 million to build the ...
Star Catcher Industries just raised $65 million to build a constellation of power-beaming satellites...
Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help...
Carbon credits bought by companies to offset their emissions really have reduced deforestation, but ...
A hidden wildfire pollutant causes thousands of ex...
Wildfire-derived ozone appears responsible for 2,045 excess deaths, on average, per year across the ...
PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a ...
PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who ...
SpaceX fuels up Starship V3 megarocket for 1st tim...
SpaceX has stacked and fueled the new version of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever, ge...
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in ...
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come...
NASA's Artemis 3 rocket is taking shape for 2027 l...
The core stage for NASA's Artemis 3 rocket has been raised inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, and...
'Nothing short of magical': Astrophotographer capt...
Dury captured shooting stars glowing with the Milky Way from the remote Scottish Island of Skye.
The story of the first human tool: the humble cont...
An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may hav...
Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy de...
A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts w...
Satellites spy one of Russia's most active volcano...
Fresh satellite images reveal volcanic heat melting snow around Russia's relentless Shiveluch volcan...
China's Tianzhou 10 freighter delivers 7 tons of c...
The Tianzhou 10 freighter delivered nearly seven tons of supplies to China's Tiangong space station ...
Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I...
The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João ...
How NASA lunar scientists taught Artemis 2 astrona...
The astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission that flew around the moon had to learn to describe th...
Watch SpaceX launch secret US spy satellites to or...
SpaceX will launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11), and you ...
Sun unleashes colossal solar flare and coronal mas...
An M5.7 solar flare triggered radio blackouts over the Atlantic.
See Artemis 2's amazing views of Earth in timelaps...
While making history on the first human moon mission in more than 50 years, the Artemis 2 astronauts...
New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal how m...
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — a...
Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only min...
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest hig...
Does Dante's Inferno from the 14th century depict ...
Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks...
'Pragmata' director Yonghee Cho on creating Capcom...
'Designing something new as a creator is incredibly exciting, but at the same time, it’s an extremel...
Total solar eclipse 2026 vs 2027 — Which one shoul...
From volcanic landscapes and a sunset eclipse to six-minute totality, here are the pros and cons of ...
Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for...
Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel...
