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How menopause radically changes the brain – and wh...

The brain undergoes a full renovation during menopause. Although these changes are profound, we’re l...

‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk a...

Researchers say a surgery that let pigs with completely severed spinal cords walk again may lead to ...

A promising natural technique to remove CO2 could ...

Several start-ups have tried to grow seaweed to remove atmospheric CO2, but this could affect the le...

'Let's not fool the public': Why moon art should b...

As NASA's Artemis program hits its stride, there's an urgent need to guard against artistic misrepre...

Our expert thinks this pocket-friendly drone is br...

Looking to take to the skies but are new to drone flying? This DJI Neo is super simple to use and it...

The surprising ways your brain changes from your 2...

When does your brain reach adulthood? We're now understanding the many ways the organ continues to m...

James Webb Space Telescope captures the star-formi...

The Orion A region has never looked as colorful and vibrant.

Our sun is destined to 'kick and spit' its way acr...

Scientists have discovered that dying stars don't go down without a fight, with red giants spitting ...

Launch monster: SpaceX has lofted more satellites ...

SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity combined —and the gap will continu...

People training new AI models admit they just get ...

The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with t...

Could we actually terraform Mars? Scientists are t...

Scientists have drawn up a research blueprint for assessing the viability of warming the Red Planet,...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satell...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base...

A mysterious gamma-ray stream comes from the Milky...

New research has failed to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of a hotly debated g...

Happy Summer Solstice! Today marks the longest day...

The summer solstice marks the longest day and the start of astronomical summer.

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 215 — Disclosu...

On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling ...

Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark...

A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Mil...

Late, great singer-songwriter Elliott Smith finds ...

An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34.

Do we need a lunar building code to build moon bas...

As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a l...

A private company will build and launch NASA's nex...

A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to o...

'This is not like life that we’ve experienced' 'St...

"I don’t have a relatable thing. This is not like life that we’ve experienced."

The most unpredictable meteor shower of the year p...

The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable showe...

Faecal transplant makes the brains of old mice act...

Older mice that received a faecal microbiome transplant from younger animals went on to have improve...

We've found a mysterious substance on Titan and Pl...

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what...

Most portable air conditioners suck – but there's ...

Efficiency ratings on portable air conditioners don’t give consumers the full picture, and one type ...

'No one thought it was going to be possible.' A sp...

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft ...

Menstruation in space will be studied for 1st time...

Maybe the next Sally Ride won't be asked the "100 tampons" question.

Annie Easley, a hero of NASA | Space photo of the ...

Easley was a human computer for the agency who helped with building the Centaur upper-stage rocket.

Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre

Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, s...

Want to start stargazing? Here's why June is the p...

Short nights and bright stars make the midsummer night sky surprisingly beginner-friendly.

Juicy new details emerge about an asteroid NASA's ...

Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which...

Can prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics help you...

The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columni...

Scientists trace high-energy ghost particle to the...

"If confirmed, Shadow Blaster would be the first-ever individual dusty star-forming galaxy directly ...

James Webb Space Telescope finds a salty surprise ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that one of the coldest exoplanets...

Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animal...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammal...

Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan af...

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, ca...

Jared Leto's unreal Skeletor transformation for 'M...

'He was a joy to work with on set, he really was. He was a lot of fun and there was this charismatic...

Watch SpaceX launch new batch of US spy satellites...

SpaceX will launch the latest batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government early Friday morning (...

You can get my favorite image-stabilized binocular...

The Fujinon Techno-Stabi TS-L 1640 image-stabilized binoculars are perfect for steady stargazing wit...

Sun-like star may have swallowed an exoplanet with...

"That's what makes this field so exciting. You really are solving a mystery."

Astrophotographer captures a cosmic lagoon glowing...

The Lagoon Nebula is best spotted in the months surrounding August in the Northern Hemisphere.

These Mars valleys are hiding 30 dust devils | Spa...

Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devi...

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supr...

Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first publ...

'It's quite a bit more than we expected': Satellit...

For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and ...

Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years l...

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life mor...

Astronomers solve the mystery of black holes' dela...

A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving a...

NASA's Perseverance rover just ran a marathon on M...

Percy has now traveled more than 26.2 miles on the Red Planet! Could you?

Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge...

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from ...

Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries ...