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Learn the night sky without an app: May's easiest ...
Forget apps — May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to lea...
Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding...
It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.
Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need ...
How important is thinking about your breath for calming yourself down? We now know that slow breathi...
SpaceX just fired up its 33-engine Starship 'V3' S...
SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the ve...
Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious s...
An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders...
NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far...
The Artemis 2 astronauts saw several impact flashes on the moon during their epic April 6 flyby, obs...
The mathematician who doesn’t exist
A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a ...
A bizarre 'decapitated' asteroid likely made the m...
An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemi...
'Saros' nails the cosmic horror and bullet-hell ac...
PlayStation and Housemarque's follow-up to Returnal packs a punch and makes great use of PS5's uniqu...
Where does Earth's mysterious 'ring current' come ...
NASA, working with the Space Force, plans to launch a space weather mission later this month to stud...
Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style p...
The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cr...
PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancie...
Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which ...
'Star Wars: Galactic Racer': Release date, trailer...
Now this is podracing... and speeder racing... and speeder bike racing...
Moon joy at Jupiter | Space photo of the day for M...
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter's moon Thebe.
Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to...
A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are d...
Here's what 6 years of driving on Mars did to the ...
A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Ma...
How do the biggest black holes in the universe for...
Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which...
Artemis 2 moon launch brought nearly 350,000 peopl...
About 346,000 U.S. visitors — roughly the equivalent of the population of Honolulu, Hawaii — came to...
The best new popular science books of May 2026
A guide to walking, a look at the world’s Google searches and a deep dive into the secrets of our DN...
Should Saturn's huge moon Titan be humanity's next...
Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Tita...
Pressure from individual particles measured for th...
A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures an...
How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling ...
By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that...
Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we kn...
Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally b...
Europe's 1st reusable spacecraft 'Space Rider' cle...
Space Rider, a novel spacecraft concept from the European Space Agency, is passing key milestones in...
Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools o...
An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools ou...
'Whatever Russia is testing, it's sophisticated': ...
Two Russian satellites got within 10 feet (3 meters) of each other recently, demonstrating a sophist...
3 puzzles of our universe could be solved with thi...
A new recipe of dark matter that interacts with itself could be the solution to three separate and v...
Red-light therapy does have health benefits but no...
Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pai...
Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point i...
At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash wide...
'Thor' hammered down 15 years ago, and it's still ...
In 2011, Thor proved himself more than worthy in his roaring MCU debut. Since then, the thunder has ...
Sci-fi RPG 'Exodus''s combat looks and feels like ...
Jun Aslan and Phaedra share a quiet chat in Archetype Entertainment's latest Community Update.
Why does NASA's Curiosity rover have a 'lucky penn...
Providing good luck to the first Martian to find it.
Nikon Action 7x50 binoculars review
Nikon's new Action 7x50 binoculars: A good buy for astronomy novices
Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 millio...
10 hidden spots in Spain to see the rare sunset to...
From desert badlands to hilltop villages, these off-the-beaten-track locations offer clear views of ...
Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still...
This 2013 book by an Indigenous botanist is a quietly urgent act of healing that forces Western scie...
Scientists created one of the largest simulations ...
The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolve...
Get more for your credits with the best leftover L...
From AT-TEs to Baby Yoda, save big with these last-minute Star Wars Day deals, before they disappear...
Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Write...
Prize-winning young writer Hasset Kifle, 17, explores how the world of super-competitive running is ...
Solar activity makes space junk crash to Earth fas...
Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar a...
Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western A...
Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, b...
Mexico City is sinking up to 14 inches per year, s...
Mexico City is one of the fastest subsiding cities in the world, dropping by up to 14 inches every y...
NASA just released 12,000 photos from Artemis 2. H...
You could spend hours scrolling through the thousands of photos just released by NASA from the Artem...
Watch SpaceX Starlink train circle Earth in amazin...
A video captured by a newly launched SpaceX Starlink satellite shows us what it's like to zoom above...
A tiny world at the edge of our solar system grew ...
A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witness...
Moon lander preps for the lunar surface | Space ph...
Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develo...
'SOL Shogunate' is a samurai space opera set on th...
Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the proc...
The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid ...
Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in ...
Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code ...
NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-h...
