Science

A faint radio signal beamed over the eons by hydrogen atoms in the early universe that contains important information about the mass and nature of...

A new archaeological find proves that ritual cleansing was a component of religious practice at an ancient sanctuary in northern Israel in the time of...

Planets can even form in some of the most inhospitable parts of the galaxy – so says new data from the James Webb Space Telescope...

A powerful X1.9-class solar flare blasted out of the sun’s active region 4114 on June 19, peaking at 9:50 p.m. EDT (0150 GMT, June 20),...

Dragon Man, a long-buried skull discovered in China’s Harbin, has been found to have its roots in the Denisovans, an elusive ancient human group...

Mars has been inspiring human imagination for millennia, mainly because it has a reddish colour, which earned it the title “Red Planet”. Its colour was...

Scientists have found the largest comet from the Oort Cloud, a covering of icy bodies at the edge of the solar system, releasing chemical...

An explosion rocked SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas late Wednesdaynight after a Starship rocket exploded on the test pad during a routine ground test....

NASA has postponed the launch to the International Space Station of an Axiom Space commercial crew mission, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), that was planned...

When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface covered in gleaming orange...

Astronomers have at last found the universe’s missing ordinary matter, the particles that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang and...

Over 5,000 years ago, an Egyptian weaver, maker of the so-called Tarkhan Dress, created the world’s oldest woven and tailored garment. The linen dress was...

When Vance Holliday accepted a research invite to New Mexico’s White Sands in 2012, he didn’t know he was stepping near what would become...

A jet-powered human robot has taken to the skies, and this time it’s managing to stay in the air and even move around mid-flight, thanks...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently begun a new chapter in its journey on Mars after entering the “Uyuni” quadrangle, a 1.5 km by 1.5 km...

SpaceX has launched 26 more Starlink satellites to the ever-growing constellation of internet relay stations in low Earth orbit. The flight took off at 8:36...

NASA teamed up with the U.S. Department of Defence on 11 and 12 June to conduct a simulation for emergency procedures for a crewed lunar...

A basic but inscrutable brain system may distinguish between reality and imagination. New research has found that there may be a “dial” in the fusiform...

A small and once-overlooked spider has left scientists baffled with a novel method of killing that goes against the spider’s grain. The feather-legged lace weaver...