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'The most incredible display of aurora I've ever s...
The photos were taken during a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest in years.
Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had fou...
Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest known vertebrates, ap...
Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand st...
Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are tho...
Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable t...
A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-j...
Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientis...
The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood vessels – instead, it...
Chinese capsule damaged by space-junk strike retur...
The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 w...
Hubble sees baby stars in Large Magellanic Cloud |...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.
US Space Force awards 1st-of-its-kind $52 million ...
Starfish Space just scored a $52.5 million contract to deorbit satellites for the U.S. Space Force, ...
Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brillian...
This follow-up to the influential 28 Days Later continues to take the zombie movie franchise in a su...
Medically evacuated Crew-11 astronauts to discuss ...
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will discuss their shorter-than-expected stay aboard...
Watch private German rocket attempt history-making...
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket will try to become the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from Europ...
Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big...
A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit th...
Bubble feeding trick spreads through humpback whal...
Humpback whales off the west coast of Canada have learned a cooperative hunting technique from whale...
Cross-training may be the key to a long life
People who combine different types of exercise - such as running, cycling and swimming - seem to liv...
Mysterious polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn cou...
"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior prop...
Blue Origin launching 6 people to suborbital space...
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch th...
Scientists investigate ‘dark oxygen’ in deep-sea m...
Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might...
How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most com...
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that...
World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy'
Countries have spent beyond their sustainable water budgets for so long that critical assets are dep...
Total solar eclipse 2030: Everything you need to k...
The total solar eclipse on Nov. 25, 2030, will mainly cross the Indian Ocean, but views will be poss...
Northern lights may be visible in 10 states tonigh...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact.
Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but melt...
An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts ...
Satellites could use magnetic fields to avoid coll...
Two or more satellites could communicate and manoeuvre around one another using magnetic fields, alt...
Earth was just hit by the strongest solar radiatio...
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for s...
The 3 best ways to tackle anxiety, according to a ...
It is impossible to get rid of anxiety because it exists to help us, says cognitive psychotherapist ...
Universal truths: Astronomy's deepest theories qui...
Test your grasp of the forces and ideas that shape our universe.
Mars orbiter sees odd etchings in the sand | Space...
Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptor...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers young galaxie...
"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and plan...
Mars once had a vast sea the size of the Arctic Oc...
Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surroun...
Comet Wierzchos buzzes the sun later today: But ca...
C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun.
Severe G4 geomagnetic storm sparks jaw-dropping no...
A fast CME slammed into Earth on Jan. 19, unleashing hours of intense auroral activity and lighting ...
Sunscreens made from ground-up wood reach an SPF o...
Concerns around common sunscreen chemicals have prompted the search for natural alternatives, with l...
An armada of 6,500 Elite Dangerous players just em...
To explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one...
How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of a...
Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
What the first medical evacuation from the Interna...
The evacuation raises a question worth exploring: how do astronauts stay healthy in space, and why i...
DJI Mini 5 Pro drone review
The DJI Mini 5 Pro is the best sub-250g drone ever made and redefines what’s possible in this regula...
Reborn black hole seen erupting across 1 million l...
"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough ...
Why a tool-using cow could change how we see farm ...
A pet cow has learned to scratch herself with a broom, showing creative problem-solving skills that ...
New Scientist’s guide to the 21 best ideas of the ...
A quarter of a century in, this is our definitive pick of the ideas in science and technology that a...
The 5 worst ideas of the 21st century – and how th...
They offered so much promise, but ultimately turned sour. These are the most disappointing ideas sin...
China previews how powerful its new Xuntian space ...
Chinese researchers have completed a full end-to-end simulation of the Chinese Space Station Telesco...
Barnacle gloop could improve inflammatory bowel di...
A "living glue" used by barnacles to attach to underwater surfaces could also seal gut wounds caused...
Northern lights may be visible in 24 states tonigh...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Colorado tonight as an incoming coronal mass ejection is forec...
NASA rolls Artemis 2 moon rocket to launch pad | S...
America's next mission to the moon is happening in only a few weeks.
Should Europe boycott US tech over Greenland, and ...
As tensions over Greenland rise, some Europeans are asking whether it is time to disentangle themsel...
Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernov...
It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a blac...
Was the Red Planet once blue? New evidence points ...
Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.
The most important second in the entire history of...
In the 13.8 billion years that our universe has been around, some moments stand out over others – fo...
This is the sharpest view ever seen of a black hol...
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space ...
