Science
Milky Way's halo is filled with 'magnetic donuts' ...
Astronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that ar...
Earth-size planet discovered around cool red dwarf...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second p...
Supernova-filled galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Tele...
The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged an actively star-forming galaxy named UGC 9684.
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tack...
The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant...
NASA details plan to build a levitating robot trai...
NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts ...
How NASA's Ingenuity helicopter opened Mars' skies...
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter's flying days may be over, but its influence will be felt far into the...
Around half the world could lose easily accessible...
In coming decades, major groundwater sources may become economically unfeasible — this could raise f...
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived witho...
Using a new approach, scientists have successfully frozen and thawed brain organoids and cubes of br...
Artemis 2 astronauts simulated a day in the life o...
How do you get ready for flying to the moon? The Artemis 2 astronauts practiced a day in space ahead...
Why did hominins like us evolve at all?
Animal life on Earth existed for over half a billion years before hominins hit the scene – a complex...
Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosy...
The Arctic could see a surge of jellyfish as climate change leads to warmer waters and less ice – a ...
One-day mental health workshop improves teenagers'...
The one-day courses were particularly beneficial to those pupils with worse mental health problems i...
Satellite images of Rafah illustrate Palestinians ...
Satellite imagery of Rafah, Gaza, provided by commercial company Planet Labs, offers a spaceborne vi...
Big decision! Curiosity rover keeps following poss...
After much debate, the Curiosity Mars rover team decided to continue following an intriguing channel...
Blue Origin targeting May 19 for 1st crewed spacef...
Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (May 19) for the six-person NS-25, the company's first crewed spacef...
Car-sized asteroid gives Earth a close shave in ne...
A car-sized asteroid flew very close to Earth on Tuesday morning (May 14), just two days after being...
Sun unleashes massive X8.7 solar flare, biggest of...
A monster sunspot on the sun's surface just won't quit, erupting yet again this week with a whopping...
Jupiter's mysterious moon Amalthea spied crossing ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the elusive fifth moon of Jupiter transiting the giant planet's G...
New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 s...
Adam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I...
Helium leak delays 1st astronaut launch of Boeing'...
The first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back by four days to May 21, ...
Everything you need to know about semaglutide weig...
From how well they work to side effects such as hair loss, here’s the skinny on new weight loss inje...
Flu vaccine for children linked to pneumonia risk ...
The nasal flu vaccine may reduce cases of pneumonia illness in population over the whole flu season ...
Giant 'rogue waves' of invisible matter might be d...
New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most...
We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space...
Gravitational waves can be lensed by massive galaxies so that they repeat, like an echo. Scientists ...
How could we give boring blobby galaxies a new, ex...
Galaxies could do with a few more arms or some decorative designs – on this episode of Dead Planets ...
The summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest in 2,000 ye...
Using tree ring data, scientists have confirmed that summer 2023 was the hottest summer on Earth in ...
SpaceX launching 50th mission of the year today
SpaceX is set to launch 20 of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 14), on the company's 50th...
New book 'Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Di...
Adam Higginbotham's new book "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Spac...
Underwater data centres could be destroyed by loud...
Underwater data centres being installed off the coasts of China, the US and Europe could be disrupte...
How SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts will ...
New details for SpaceX's privately-funded crewed launch, Polaris Dawn, paint a more complete picture...
This time, we take it from no one: Why opening the...
The coming settlement of the High Frontier doesn’t have to be a repeat of the violent conquests and ...
Mystery of 'impossible' star resolved by three-bod...
A white dwarf star orbiting a sun-like star was thought to be impossibly small, but now astronomers ...
Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Nea...
Genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons has uncovered the remnants of three viruse...
ChatGPT got an upgrade to make it seem more human
OpenAI's new ChatGPT model, called GPT-4o, provides more human-like interactions through a voice mod...
'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' reinvigorates ...
"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is a triumph of solid storytelling, cutting-edge motion capture ...
SpaceX Starship's next launch 'probably 3 to 5 wee...
SpaceX's Starship megarocket will likely conduct its fourth-ever test flight in the next month or so...
Ultrasound therapy could treat lung condition link...
Mice benefitted from ultrasound therapy for a rare lung condition – the treatment might work for com...
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact...
The rise of AI might explain why the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to dete...
