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'Anti-social' cosmic explosion could change the wa...

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision."

SpaceX looking into 'simplified' Starship Artemis ...

On Oct. 30, SpaceX posted an update about its Starship moon-landing plans, which includes a referenc...

Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evide...

Magnetic gel could remove kidney stones more effec...

Standard techniques for removing kidney stones often require repeated surgery, but a magnetic gel se...

These top-rated binoculars deliver 'a sky-watching...

The Celestron SkyMaster binoculars are our best binoculars for magnification, with a massive discoun...

Colorado sues Trump administration over plans to r...

Colorado's attorney general is suing the Trump administration over the White House's plans to move t...

The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despit...

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy b...

Dinosaur skeleton settles long debate over 'tiny T...

Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or...

Europe is working to develop reusable rockets by t...

ArianeGroup's methane-fueled Prometheus engine and Themis demonstrator mark key steps toward a Europ...

China reveals crew for Shenzhou 21 mission to Tian...

China unveiled the crew set to launch on the Shenzhou 21 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Oc...

Powerful solar storms may help life get going on a...

New observations of a volatile young star have shown how infant suns could unleash enough energy to ...

James Webb Space Telescope spots the haunting Red ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope image showcases the gorgeous Red Spider Nebula against a backdrop o...

Peering into the eye of Hurricane Melissa | Space ...

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured high-resolution views inside the eye of the powerf...

Germanium superconductor could help build reliable...

A new type of germanium superconductor could allow classical and quantum chips to be built into one ...

Watch SpaceX launch its 100th Starlink mission of ...

SpaceX will launch its 100th Starlink mission of the year today (Oct. 30), and you can watch the act...

Stem cell therapy lowers risk of heart failure aft...

People who receive stem cell therapy within a week of their first heart attack have nearly a 60 per ...

Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan d...

Japan declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus c...

A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enorm...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its c...

Could these mysterious flashes of light in 1950s p...

Researchers claim flashes of light seen in sky surveys could have been UFOs drawn to Earth by nuclea...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists mapped the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b in three dime...

Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderth...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that ...

Every 'Star Wars: Visions Volume 3' episode, ranke...

The award-winning anthology of animated Star Wars shorts is back with a third batch crafted by Japan...

'Supergirl' at 10: The Arrowverse TV show laid the...

How the "Supergirl" TV series shaped DC's modern age of heroes.

Is Earth 'on the brink'? 2024 was likely our plane...

Two new climate reports warn Earth's vital signs are flashing red after the hottest year in 125,000 ...

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit fr...

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Oct. 29), sending them u...

'Most of it is good': Tim Berners-Lee on the state...

The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use...

You won't see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom clo...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest pass to the sun on Oct. 30, and various spacec...

Enormous black hole unexpectedly found in tiny gal...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, r...

Mercury shines farthest from the sun in the evenin...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset.

Sun's far side erupts in satellite image | Space p...

A massive coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun's far side late on Oct. 21, 2025 and was captur...

Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faste...

Computers built with analogue circuits promise huge speed and efficiency gains over ordinary compute...

Can we find water ice on the moon? Only if we know...

Space agencies around the world are planning moon missions that will depend on water ice for resourc...

Can't focus after a bad's night sleep? Your dirty ...

During sleep, your brain cleans itself by flushing through cerebrospinal fluid to prevent damage to ...

Watch Japan's 1st HTV-X cargo craft arrive at the ...

Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station for the first time...

Spacewalking Russian cosmonauts install experiment...

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky completed a 6 hour and 54 minute spacewalk o...

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of private Griffin moon...

The mission had previously targeted a launch at the end of 2025.

Quantum-inspired algorithm could help reveal hidde...

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable ...

US public health system is flying blind after majo...

The Trump administration has laid off government workers integral to major public health surveys, me...

NASA spots a spooky face glowing on the sun just i...

A haunting grin appeared on the sun as bright active regions and dark coronal holes combined to crea...

NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet makes historic ...

NASA's X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet took off on its first-ever flight on Oct. 28, flying from Palmdal...

12-year-old discovers 2 possible new asteroids

Siddharth Patel has been watching the sky since the age of five. Fresh off two possible asteroid dis...

How AI and sand dunes on Mars can reveal the plane...

An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on individual grains of sand could help scien...

Scientists hear 2 newborn black holes 'crying' thr...

Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unus...

How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shap...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Anc...

1st samples ever collected from the moon's far sid...

Fragments of CI chondrite meteorites, which are space rocks that are typically rich in water, have t...

Hurricane Melissa is being fuelled by exceptional ...

The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Cari...

Why Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest Atla...