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Mayo on a mission: Sir Kensington's aims to bring ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station could soon add new taste to their food if a 'certa...
6 exquisite images from Close-up Photographer of t...
A moray eel, a robber fly and an ice-topped slime mould appear in winning images from the Close-Up P...
SpaceX to launch 22 Starlink satellites from Calif...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning (Jan. 10), sending 22 Starli...
AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per c...
Researchers used AI to design a new material that they used to build a working battery – it requires...
We’re finally working out why the Mediterranean di...
We have known for decades that the Mediterranean diet lowers the risk of heart attack and other cond...
Time is running out for stricken Peregrine moon la...
The clock is ticking for Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander as the spacecraft continues to leak pro...
JAXA, NASA reveal 1st images from XRISM X-ray spac...
Launched in September 2023, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) — led by JAXA, in col...
The age of the private moon mission has begun
Astrobotic's Peregrine Lander has set the stage for a new era of commercial missions to the moon in ...
‘Islands’ poking out of black holes may solve the ...
Measuring “entanglement islands” that contain copies of information that black holes have lost could...
Neutron stars could be the ultimate dark matter de...
One astronomer proposes that, instead of building gigantic, expensive experiments on Earth, we shoul...
NASA funds Venus sample-return, interstellar probe...
Through its NIAC program, NASA has awarded funding to 13 innovative space technology concepts that c...
Why moon missions in 2024 could reveal both our hi...
Several moon missions are planned for 2024, including some that will attempt to mine for ice on the ...
2023 was officially the hottest year on record
The global average temperature for 2023 was 1.48°C warmer than the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average,...
GiGi, Axiom's spacesuit-clad Build-A-Bear zero-g i...
As it turns out, when you build a bear to fly into space, one mission is not enough. 'GiGi,' the Bui...
Star cluster is heading for destruction at the hea...
The closest star cluster to the centre of the Milky Way we have seen seems to be falling in, which c...
It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanet...
It may be easier than researchers thought to form diamonds inside giant planets, which means that it...
The Peregrine lunar lander may not make it to the ...
After its 8 January launch aboard a Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander has experienced a f...
1st photo from crippled private Peregrine moon lan...
The photo shows a disturbance in some of Peregrine's insulation, which is consistent with a problem ...
Satellites reveal 75% of world's industrial fishin...
New satellite imagery has helped detect previously unmapped global fishing vessels, revealing nearly...
Extreme droughts are worse for plants than we thou...
Grasslands are almost 40 per cent less productive after a year of extreme drought, an experiment spa...
There can be 240,000 plastic particles in a litre ...
Own brand one-litre water bottles from three unnamed US supermarkets each contained hundreds of thou...
Private Peregrine moon lander suffers 'critical' f...
Astrobotic's Peregrine lander suffered a problem with its propulsion system today (Jan. 8) that will...
What does space smell like?
From carbon molecules and ozone on spacesuits to the nauseating odor of comets and the sweet tang of...
Animal bones ground into an edible paste could hel...
A Finnish start-up has developed a method of grinding up chicken or fish bones into a nutritious pas...
Diamond rain may be more common across the univers...
It may be easier than researchers thought to form diamonds inside giant planets, which means that it...
Private Peregrine lander launches to the moon: Wha...
Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander launched today (Jan. 8) with five NASA science payloads aboard. H...
Should nations try to ban bitcoin because of its e...
Bitcoin miners seem unwilling to take action to curb the cryptocurrency's energy and water use – so ...
Private Peregrine moon lander suffers anomaly afte...
Astrobotic's private Peregrine moon lander has suffered an anomaly in space after separating from it...
Christina Koch: ‘I come to work to do cool things ...
Christina Koch, who will become the first woman to go to the moon with the Artemis II mission, on wh...
Turbulent 1st moments of a black hole's life captu...
Scientists modeled how black holes and neutron stars form after dying stars collapse, and explained ...
See the moon meet up with Mercury, Venus and Mars ...
In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, Jan. 9, Mercury, Venus and Mars will appear alongside a thin cresc...
DHL delivering Everest rock, 'meme' coin to the mo...
A rock from Mount Everest, a time capsule from Belgium, a physical 'meme' coin and a letter from a p...
Floating 'magic islands' on Saturn's moon Titan ma...
On Saturn's largest moon, Titan, snows of organic compounds may form glacier-like honeycomb chunks i...
