The European Space Agency (ESA) has celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket. Vega-C is an upgrade to the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as a launcher specialising in lifting small … [+1316 chars]
Comet K2, one of the most distant 'active' comets ever discovered, is swinging past our planet this week as it makes its first ever journey from the outermost reaches of the solar system toward the s… [+8848 chars]
Space enthusiasts across the world were starstruck by the first set of full-colour photos taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) released yesterday. But what they may not have spotted hid… [+8910 chars]
Fish are helping researchers track down the origins of how brains compute mathematics, reports a review in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. An international team has reviewed more than 200 publications, wh… [+3848 chars]
Stargazers across Ireland and the UK are set to catch a glimpse of a bigger and brighter supermoon on Wednesday night. Julys full moon is known as the Buck Moon because male deer shed and regrow the… [+2131 chars]
Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt have discovered that they can … [+4346 chars]
In 2011, a small meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert. Designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 or "Black Beauty," the blackened chunk of volcanic crystal turned out to be a little piece of Mars, f… [+6582 chars]
The universe contains billions of galaxies, of which our own Milky Way is just one. Often thought of as vast agglomerations of stars, which is how they look in photographs, galaxies actually contain … [+5227 chars]
In its earliest stages, long before it sprouts its signature appendages, a starfish embryo resembles a tiny bead, spinning through the water like a miniature ball bearing. Now, MIT scientists have o… [+6596 chars]
