New ideas will be key to making the mission happen after a report criticised its timescale and cost.

The clam lived through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the entire run of Seinfeld.

Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development

It’s so much older than we thought.

See a thin crescent Moon on 8 and 9 May, including a meeting with gas giant Jupiter and the Bull’s red eye Aldebaran.

Pherkad is circumpolar star from the northern hemisphere and never sets. It’s 15 times larger than the Sun and 1,100 times more luminous.

The gas giant exoplanet WASP-43 b has a powerful 5,000 mph blowing around its equator, due to its close orbit with its star.

While some cyanobacteria are among the deadliest organisms in the world, others help us flourish

Feeling stressed and unproductive at work? Here’s how plants can boost your mood, improve air quality and create a more zen workspace.

SES is buying Intelsat, the world’s first commercial satellite operator, for $3.1 billion.

Lunar settlers could avoid health problems like muscle wasting by running on the inside of a circular wall to mimic the pull of Earth’s gravity on the body

A process to dissolve the mineral olivine in acid could provide a plentiful, energy-efficient material for carbon-negative cement

Marijuana to move from Schedule 1, the most dangerous drug group, to Schedule 3.

Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills.

Fish are in microgravity on China’s Tiangong space station, but it’s not the first time.

Scientists simulated the dental adaptations of these adolescent predators.

Turns out burning fossil fuels doesn’t just have an impact on Earth’s temperature, it also has a (tiny) effect on the planet’s weight.

Tackle light pollution with our guide on how to make your home and community skies darker, including what lighting to use and when.

Be sure to check out the Full Flower Moon on May 22 and 23rd.

A scientist who’s been working on NASA’s Voyager mission for more than half a century says that the probes are straight-up catching strays. 

Total solar eclipses are astonishing, but travelling to get to one is less so – this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about rearranging the solar system to create a more convenient eclipse

The causes and possible solutions of the climate crisis are linked to the subsurface.

“If we’re going to have a true space economy, that means logistics and supply services.”

Physicists say the discovery offers a potential avenue to “economically attractive fusion energy” in the future.

The volcano is not erupting, but a “significant spike” in earthquakes has prompted the closure of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

“Nestlings exposed to noise rather than song were slower to grow and showed more severe signs of cellular damage,” said researcher Mylene Mariette.

New evidence of the critically endangered diademed sifaka lemur being targeted by the vulnerable fossa is presenting conservationists with a tricky problem.

Findings can provide picture of political, economic, cultural conditions of ancient China’s Chu state

Studying impending solar storms should allow scientists to learn more about how hospitable Mars is, so space agencies can decide what kind of radiation protection astronauts would require in future.

There’s something very appropriate about the crater that’s been pinned as Kamo’oalewa’s source.

Mammatus clouds are large lumpy formations on the underside of clouds that look like large cow udders and come in advance of stormy weather.

Guardian Seascapes reporter Karen McVeigh tells Madeleine Finlay about a recent trip to the Galápagos Islands, where mounds of plastic waste are washing up and causing problems for endemic species. Tackling this kind of waste and the overproduction of plastic were the topics on the table in Ottawa this week, as countries met to negotiate a global plastics treaty. But is progress too slow to address this pervasive problem?

Two timelapse movies showing the evolution of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A supernova remnants. Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

“The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical.”

The “unusual” object was made with great craftsmanship and would likely have significantly improved the patient’s quality of life.

Britain’s former climate adviser says the country’s future plans are weak, climate protests are no longer helpful, and working closely with Big Oil is a jarring necessity.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken down yet again, bringing scientific activities grinding to a halt.

Red foxes and Arctic foxes dive headfirst into snow at up to 4 metres per second to catch small rodents, and the shape of their snouts reduces the impact force

Advances in environmental DNA sequencing show that these areas were for more than just for recreation.

The PENTATRAP’s precision marks a milestone in particle physics.

The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe includes 12,341 craters, 81 basins, and 17 different rock types.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has turned its full attention towards the distant ocean-covered world called K2-18b last week.

White matter, which connects different regions of the brain, appears to retain better structure in superagers than in older people with memory decline.

This hybrid approach could finally fuel the drive for clean energy.

It’s not a fun one! It’s toxic to the bone marrow and testicles!

America’s rarest mammal is staring down extinction—but these specimens offer hope.

From frogs to orchids, many organisms go dormant or move underground for lengthy stints

An image of Europe at night from space, London, Paris and Amsterdam, with artificial light of towns and cities and the curvature of Earth.

Scientists fear that bird flu “could be catastrophic” for marine mammals after discovering brain inflammation in the infected dolphin.