Science & Space

The head of one of the US’s national observatories says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs

When the veteran telecoms engineer Damien Finch went on a three-week bush walk in Australia’s Kimberley region, he became enthralled

New research shows that not only does Pluto’s unique “frozen heart” actually control the dwarf planet’s weather systems, it does

Behold the Sun’s convulsing surface at a level of detail never seen before. The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope on

Imagine this: You’re out with your family in one of the parks in New York state where you can actually

Space debris tracking service LeoLabs has sounded the alarm after discovering that two defunct and decommissioned satellites are hurtling towards

The newly unveiled logo for US President Donald Trump’s Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went

Chocolate chip cookies have become the first food to be baked in space in a first-of-its-kind experiment. Astronauts baked the

The impact of humans on nature has been far greater and longer-lasting than we could ever imagine, according to scientists.

Europe’s novel wind-measuring satellite, Aeolus, has reached a key milestone in its mission. The space laser’s data is now being

Scientists studying the underlying mechanisms which formed the universe have made a startling and terrifying discovery, which they believe indicates

Indonesian authorities are turning to the technique of cloud seeding to try to stop more rain falling in the flood-hit

American scientist Frances Arnold, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, has retracted her latest paper. Ms Arnold shared the

Using the SPHERE receiver of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Southern Telescope (VLT), astronomers noticed that the asteroid Hygea,

Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to launch

In an important New Year development, Tesla Motors, in partnership with physicists from Canada’s Dalhousie University, filed a patent on

Five thousand and seven hundred years ago, “Lola,” a blue-eyed woman with dark skin and hair, chewed on a slice

Deep beneath its frozen primordial oceans, Saturn’s moon Enceladus might hide the building blocks for life, based on current study.