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Supermassive black holes eat more quickly than exp...
Supermassive black holes are even more fearsome eaters than scientists suspected, thanks to a "deliv...
UK's Online Safety Bill to become law, but can it ...
After years of political wrangling, wide-ranging online rules are about to become UK law - but compl...
Auroras galore! Solar storm slams into Earth and s...
A strong geomagnetic storm sparked by a coronal mass ejection triggered impressive aurora light show...
Vaccine that erases immune memory may help treat m...
An experimental vaccine that erases the immune system’s memory of a molecule could be used to stop a...
After 1 year in space, what's next for an astronau...
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spoke from the International Space Station on Sept. 19 just ahead of his ...
The entire brain may be involved in language, not ...
Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of l...
Japan's SLIM moon lander completes 1st critical ph...
Japan's SLIM moon lander has passed a first critical operation period in Earth orbit, meaning its so...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. They might be o...
DARPA wants new ideas for space weapons
The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.
Watch a cyborg cockroach navigate a maze
Remote-controlled cockroaches are not a new idea, but now researchers have found a way to steer the ...
Stick insects that are normally asexual may occasi...
Some animals reproduce asexually by creating embryos from unfertilised eggs, but this can lead to a ...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reaches perilous ridge...
This spot on Mars has preserved information about ancient landslides and evidence of Red Planet wate...
OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe makes final maneuver bef...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday (Sept. 17) to se...
China's new wide-field survey telescope scopes out...
A new high-resolution, wide-field telescope situated in China offers its first stunning view.
SpaceX rocket poised to launch on record-breaking ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch for a record-setting 17th time tonight (Sept. 19), a...
Stoke Space gets closer to 100% reusable rocket wi...
Stoke Space successfully tested its Hopper vehicle, showcasing innovative designs for its second sta...
India to launch test of Gaganyaan crew capsule's e...
In the next month or two, India plans to launch a test mission to validate the crew escape system fo...
Extinct Tasmanian tiger yields RNA secrets that co...
RNA, which regulates the activity of DNA, is a crucial part of building an organism - and now resear...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter breaks altitude record...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter soared higher than ever before over the weekend, getting 66 feet (2...
World's 1st mountaintop impact crater discovered i...
A two-peaked mountain in northeastern China is the site of the world's first confirmed mountaintop c...
Asteroid hit by NASA's DART spacecraft is behaving...
Asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA intentionally hit with a rocket during its DART mission in September ...
The complete series of 'Babylon 5' will be availab...
The complete series of 'Babylon 5' will be available on Blu-ray in December, welcome news at a time ...
Theory of consciousness branded 'pseudoscience' by...
A leading theory about consciousness called the integrated information theory has been attacked in a...
Rare Australian pink diamonds emerged when a super...
Understanding how the world’s largest-known collection of pink diamonds came to the surface in Austr...
Polaris Spaceplanes wraps up MIRA-Light prototype ...
German company Polaris Spaceplanes completed the flight campaign for its MIRA-Light prototype vehicl...
DeepMind AI can predict if DNA mutations are likel...
By working out which small mutations will probably be damaging, DeepMind’s AlphaMissense system coul...
NASA launches Spanish-language podcast 'Universo C...
NASA released its first season of "Universo curioso de la NASA," a Spanish-language podcast centered...
Incredible new moon images show Artemis 3 landing ...
The lunar south pole looks haunting in a new mosaic image that uses photography from two different N...
Catastrophic Libyan dam collapse partly caused by ...
Recent extreme rainfall that caused flooding across the Mediterranean and contributed to the catastr...
NASA astronaut assigned to International Space Sta...
U.S. astronaut Tracy Dyson will fly to the International Space Station for the third time in March 2...
The seismic shift in attitudes toward cannabis exp...
As popular discussion of cannabis has moved away from the drug trade and toward potential medical ap...
See distant Neptune at its brightest in the night ...
The distant ice giant Neptune will be in opposition to the sun with the planet making a close approa...
Rare mutation hints gene editing could prevent Alz...
Two people with a mutant version of a gene variant – APOE4 – linked to Alzheimer’s showed no signs o...
What if OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample capsule crash...
The descent capsule of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission is supposed to touch down softly ...
How much asteroid material is NASA's OSIRIS-REx pr...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is delivering a precious haul of asteroid dirt and gravel to Earth this we...
Rocket Lab suffers anomaly during launch of Earth-...
Rocket Lab suffered an anomaly during the launch of a radar Earth-observation satellite for the Cali...
Heart of the 'Squid Galaxy' reveals how supermassi...
A study of the Squid Galaxy, Messier 77, has revealed how chemicals swirl around its central black h...
Very Large Telescope surprisingly finds exoplanet ...
The European Very Large Telescope in Chile has photographed a planet orbiting a star in a multi-star...
R2-D2 and Chopper return in 'Star Wars: Dark Droid...
Here's a first look at R2-D2 in Marvel Comics' spinoff series "Star Wars: Dark Droids: D-Squad #1" r...
Mars Society proposes institute to develop tech ne...
A new initiative from the Mars Society suggests a new institute be established that could help devel...
We now know how many cells there are in the human ...
New estimates for the number of cells in adults and children draw on over 1500 scientific papers det...
