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Smoke from devastating Canada wildfires visible fr...
Satellites have captured images of the billowing smoke.
In 2011, Peruvian geologist Andrés Ruzo followed h...
In 2011, geophysicist Andrés Ruzo confirmed a 6.24-kilometre stretch of the Peruvian Amazon's Shanay...
Margaret Hamilton was 32 years old when her Apollo...
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo Guidance Computer began flashing 1202 alarms as Eagle descended toward ...
The Perseid meteor shower is here! How to see the ...
The 2026 Perseid meteor shower is active from tonight and peaks alongside a dramatic total solar ecl...
The Mariana snailfish lives 8,000 metres down in w...
The Mariana snailfish thrives 8,000 metres down in water pressure that would crush a submarine — tha...
Astronauts just launched on a Soyuz rocket with an...
This week's ISS astronaut launch used a Soyuz rocket emblazoned with an ad for an energy drink. It's...
Are we underestimating the threat of solar storms?...
A new study suggests the most extreme solar storms to strike Earth could have greater impacts on sat...
The International Space Station loses about 100 me...
The 420-tonne International Space Station sinks about 100 meters a day through the thin upper atmosp...
Vitamin B12 exists nowhere in the plant kingdom — ...
Vitamin B12 is the only vitamin that no plant and no animal can synthesise. Every microgram in the f...
Skeletal muscle burns through its entire ATP suppl...
Skeletal muscle stores only enough ATP for about two seconds of maximal effort. A phosphocreatine re...
The 2,700 heatwave deaths in England this summer w...
json { “content”: “ The two heatwaves that seared England and Wales in May and June killed roughly 2...
Tree swallows nesting at the northern edge of thei...
Tree swallows breeding at the northern edge of their range are paying a steeper climate penalty than...
In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incr...
On 29 April 2020, a single stroke of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and...
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork und...
In January 1665, Robert Hooke peered through a leather-covered microscope at a shaving of cork, saw ...
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly fo...
For nearly four years in a leaky Paris shed, Marie and Pierre Curie boiled down eight tonnes of pitc...
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 test launch aborts at ...
SpaceX aborted Flight 13 of its giant Starship rocket at the last second on Thursday (July 16). It's...
Astronomers discover landslides on Pluto large eno...
Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New ...
Astronomers discover 1st atmosphere around a rocky...
"It's in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching...
SpaceX stacks massive Starship rocket ahead of tod...
SpaceX has stacked the two stages of its giant Starship rocket ahead of the Flight 13 test launch, w...
An animated sci-fi rom-com wasn't on our wish list...
It's young rocket scientists in love and rowdy alien refugees when this animated adventure launches ...
Stephen Hawking's famous 'leaky' black hole theory...
"Hawking's laws of black hole mechanics provided a satisfying connection between extreme and ordinar...
Is dark matter 'tuned in' to a hidden dimension?
Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimen...
Watch SpaceX launch 21 'data transport' satellites...
SpaceX will launch 21 more satellites for the U.S. military's advanced new "Tranche 1 Transport Laye...
SpaceX will launch Starship, the world's largest r...
SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 13 today (July 16), a test mission that will send "V3" Starli...
'Full steam ahead': NASA ramps up prep for Artemis...
NASA is busy preparing for Artemis III, the next crewed mission of its moon program launching on the...
Watch Archimedes burn! Rocket Lab fires up engine ...
Rocket Lab recently performed a full-duration static fire test with the engine that will power the s...
Meteorite that crashed through New Jersey house co...
"Thanks to the homeowner’s quick reaction, these are the most pristine CM1/2 meteorites we know of."...
Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a s...
"Our work shows that sugars can form naturally in space."
The 10 best places in the UK to see the partial so...
August 12 will see the deepest partial solar eclipse in the U.K. for many decades, hours before the ...
'Found you!' Astronomers spot faintest exoplanet e...
It has taken over ten years, but astronomers have finally won a prolonged game of cosmic hide-and-se...
Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a col...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers over the past year with...
What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 launch on...
SpaceX will launch its next Starship, carrying the first V3 Starlink satellites, on the Flight 13 te...
SpaceX launches flight-proven rocket for 600th tim...
SpaceX launched Starlink satellites on a pair of Falcon 9 rockets eight hours apart from opposite co...
Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hidin...
"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directl...
The 1st of 10,000 'missing' black holes in the Ome...
The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks...
'Once Upon a Time in Space': How to watch PBS's ou...
'It's like you’re going to Oz. It's glimmering, it's beautiful'
1st-ever X-rays in space offer hope for possible p...
A portable X-ray device has been used successfully in orbit for the first time, promising X-ray diag...
This cosmic 'lighthouse' is blazing a magnetic tra...
For the first time, astronomers have directly mapped the magnetic field surrounding one of the Milky...
How to watch SpaceX launch Starship Flight 13 on J...
SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight will carry out the first deployment of Starlink V3 satellites whi...
The biggest skywatching day of 2026 is coming. Her...
Whether you're in Spain, Iceland, the U.K. or North America, here's exactly what you'll see in the s...
Moon landings could destroy evidence of life's ori...
"We are trying to protect science and our investment in space."
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: SpaceX s...
SpaceX is progressing toward Starship's next big test launch.
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vap...
Sub-Neptune exoplanets could have atmospheres so dense and crushing that rock is vaporized to form c...
Russia's launching a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonau...
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two cosmonauts will launch toward the International Space Station atop...
NASA begins stacking rocket ahead of 2027 Artemis ...
NASA has begun assembling segments of the SLS solid rocket boosters that will help launch astronauts...
