University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher with a mounted skeleton of the Buesching mastodon, based on casts of individual bones produced in fiberglass, on public display at the University o… [+11173 chars]
The origin of consciousness is one of the greatest mysteries of science. One proposed solution, first suggested by Nobel Laureate and Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Ha… [+7351 chars]
NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging. The Voya… [+2502 chars]
The sun flexed its considerable magnetic muscles today (June 13), and two solar spacecraft captured the show on video. Earth's star unleashed a long-duration solar flare early this morning, blasting… [+2252 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Europe's Gaia telescope dropped its latest batch of data on Monday as it seeks to assemble the largest catalogue of light sources in the sky. It… [+6448 chars]
The launch of SpaceX's next cargo mission has been pushed back at least two more weeks, to no earlier than July 11. The mission, called CRS-25, will send a robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule toward the… [+1902 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Europe's Gaia telescope dropped its latest batch of data on Monday as it seeks to assemble the largest catalogue of light sources in the sky. It… [+6434 chars]
NASA has lost two satellites designed to track hurricanes after the rocket carrying them malfunctioned. The cause hasn't yet been revealed but a livestream feed showed the Astra launch vehicle succe… [+2960 chars]