On 13 June, the European Space Agency will release the Gaia mission's third full data set which contains new and improved details for almost two billion objects in our home galaxy - the Milky Way. A … [+1732 chars]
Prehistoric giants used to populate the Earth . These behemoths included mighty dinosaurs, airplane-size pterosaurs, massive crocodiles and snakes, and even armadillos the size of cars. But today, t… [+6454 chars]
SPACE fans had to look twice after spotting what looks like Daleks sneaking off the ISS. One of the Space Station's current residents shared an eerie photo of the "stowaways". 'Stowaways' spottedCr… [+1462 chars]
Asteroid collisions in the early solar system exposed their iron cores to space, allowing them to cool rapidly. (Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech) A great demolition derby, with a chaotic mess of aste… [+4971 chars]
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Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best s… [+7481 chars]
A team of scientists at the Georgia State University (GSU) were left speechless after an experiment involving gene-editing on hamsters turned them into hyper aggressive little demons. To conduct res… [+2070 chars]
Since I was around 12, Ive been interested in technology and have sought opportunities to work with hardware. I developed this interest both at and outside of school. I became fascinated by the Inte… [+1735 chars]
Made from atoms in never-ending motion, the time crystals were long believed to be impossible. A time crystal is a macroscopic quantum system in periodic motion in its ground state. They exhibit the … [+1814 chars]
If we have learnt anything from the various space exploration missions conducted by NASA, its that the universe can be extremely strange. Bizarre even. We have discovered exoplanets (planets that orb… [+2522 chars]
X-rays make it possible to explore inside human bodies or peer inside objects. The technology used to illuminate the detail in microscopically small structures is the same as that used in familiar si… [+3777 chars]
SPACE observers have spotted an odd object on Mars that looks like something Gandalf would carry. The peculiar piece resembles a wizard's staff with its crooked upright stance. What could it be?Cre… [+1514 chars]