Engineers uncovered an issue with the Moon rocket amid preparations for a launch

The disturbing burial site contained decapitated corpses and body parts stacked on top of each other. Yet what happened there remains a mystery

Could this hypothesis reveal the true nature of reality?

What scientists thought were four separate star clusters are actually part of one nearly invisible system.

Colliding galaxies can create a beam of focused microwave radiation known as a maser, and astronomers have discovered the brightest one ever seen

A seabed curtain to protect Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica would be difficult and expensive, but doing nothing to slow the glacier’s collapse could be even worse.

A new study suggests features in the prehistoric creature’s mouth helped it eat more efficiently, giving the species the energy needed to go airborne

“Before XRISM, it was like we could see a picture of the storm. Now we can measure the speed of the cyclone.”

Don’t let the simple website fool you. The ‘Space Umbrella’ project is analyzing some intense cosmic forces.

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it could inspire next generation microphones.

There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

Dated to the ninth century C.E., a time when the Vikings ruled the area, the grave held the remains of at least 10 different young men.

Scientists were baffled over how eels reproduced for thousands of years – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned

The Sun is yellow, right? Turns out it’s not that simple. What colour the Sun is depends on how you observe it, and from where.

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?

With an estimated 6 sextillion kilograms of the stuff—that’s 21 zeroes by the way—the Earth’s core is another example of why hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had an extra set of conical-shaped teeth, indicating it likely ate plants. It’s one of the earliest species to do so.

“An active supermassive black hole is like a hungry predator dominating the ecosystem.”

Marshland in Spain’s Doñana National Park is steadily losing surface water, satellite data reveals.

The Antarctic mystery was solved following “a serendipitous alignment of observations,” the researchers said.

Cryptic species are those that look like another species but are genetically distinct.

Life thrives in bizarre ecosystem, sealed off for 5 million years 

The company that attempted China’s first orbital-class rocket landing says it will soon try again.

Endemic birds on Hawaii are being wiped out by avian malaria, but is GM technology the answer?

Much as we’d like to imagine dinosaurs on skis or skates, their footprints are much more scientifically useful.

Nasa sets the launch date following a successful “wet dress rehearsal” of the Artemis II mission.

The Apollo programme concluded in 1972

First manned mission for the Boeing space taxi almost ended in a ‘really terrible day’

The Boeing-built craft was on its first crewed test flight to the International Space Station when its thrusters failed, leaving it dangerously out of control.

The Iron Age human and animal footprints were preserved before high winds destroyed them.

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, but telescopes on Earth failed to pick up any radio transmissions

A study published today helps explain how “planetesimals”—the building blocks of planets—came to be

Newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect

The risk of synchronous wildfires is rising – and help won’t be as likely to come from neighbouring countries busy with their own flames.

A study on climate change’s impacts has revealed how species are, or aren’t, coping with increasing global temperatures.

Despite being far away from civilisation, a melting Antarctic’s “disastrous” consequences will ripple across the world, researchers warn.

A nationwide scheme known as Flood Re is only a temporary fix.

Even palaeontologists used to digs in forbidding places might have baulked at this one, but the results more than vindicated those who persisted.

And we even have candidates for which genes were involved.

To break the limits on time measurements, we might need to reach for the Moon.

Researchers say finding indicates duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur was killed by a T rex

Fungal diseases are a major threat to the global banana supply.

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but many cosmologists are leery of the idea

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed Clovis culture.

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This growing type of pollution could destroy ozone and form climate-warming clouds

Most Sun-like stars orbit a partner, but Sun ended up alone. We explain how – and why its lonely path set the stage for life.

The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

Finding resources far from Earth is a well-known spaceflight limitation, but metal-harvesting microbes provide a method for tapping outer space’s mineral wealth.

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