The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in ageing and cancer. Researche… [+6334 chars]
Historically, going to space has always been part of a government-backed effort that require extensive training, funding, and a justifiable mission. A crop of commercial space companies are vowing to… [+8244 chars]
It's a question that has plagued astronomers for years: How did supermassive black holes, which can weigh billions of times the mass of the sun, grow so large, so quickly? Now, scientists are closer … [+4070 chars]
At this years South by Southwest Festival, I had the pleasure of asking a panel of experts some big questions about travel to Mars. The journey will push limits of the human body and may take us to t… [+13902 chars]
A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week and erupted with a medium-size solar flare, along with a mass ejection of plasma, also lit up the northern skies in glowing lights. One stunning image o… [+2945 chars]
Small satellite launch specialist company Rocket Lab have announced plans to try to catch one of its launch vehicles on return to Earth, using a helicopter. We should know in the next fortnight if th… [+3472 chars]
NASA plans to slam a vending machine-sized spacecraft into a space rock the size of a magnificent Egyptian pyramid in 2022. Itll be a first-of-its-kind test to see if they can sway an asteroid from i… [+3681 chars]
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the pictureamong the public… [+8831 chars]
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Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. Gravitational waves form when m… [+2427 chars]
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the pictureamong the public… [+8831 chars]
It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientis… [+3366 chars]
