The Perseid meteor shower is lighting up the skies this week in one of the highlights of the year for stargazers. With up to 150 shooting stars streaking through the sky per hour, it is one of the b… [+3651 chars]
Image of Bathynomus yucatanensis. Credit: Dr. Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History A massive, creamy yellow relative of Woodlouse was found living at a depth of around 600 to 800 meters (2,00… [+5017 chars]
The Perseid meteor shower is lighting up the skies this week in one of the highlights of the year for stargazers. With up to 150 shooting stars streaking through the sky per hour, it is one of the b… [+3651 chars]
Earth's continents were formed when our planet was bombarded with giant meteorites around 3.5 billion years ago, a new study has found. Researchers from Curtin University in Perth, Australia analyse… [+6345 chars]
Travelling 500 million light-years in just a matter of seconds, this incredible new video zooms through space to reveal the spectacular Cartwheel Galaxy as captured by the James Webb telescope. The … [+7232 chars]
ByUniversity of BirminghamAugust 11, 2022 New research shows that large dinosaur predators evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces. According to new research, l… [+3693 chars]
Deflecting an asteroid such as Bennu, which has a small chance of hitting Earth in about a century and a half, could require multiple small impacts from some sort of massive human-made deflection dev… [+4015 chars]
Image of Bathynomus yucatanensis. Credit: Dr. Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History A massive, creamy yellow relative of Woodlouse was found living at a depth of around 600 to 800 meters (2,00… [+5017 chars]
If you cast your gaze across the night sky this week, you'll be in with the chance of wishing upon a shooting star. Dubbed by NASA as "one of the best meteor showers of the year", the Perseid meteor… [+1497 chars]
11 August 2022, 13:36 | Updated: 11 August 2022, 15:02 By Siena Linton A cinematic burst of colour and sound from the depths of outer space... Space is a largely silent place. Once you leave the E… [+2170 chars]
Sign up to our daily newsletter The last supermoon of the year will be rising in our skies tonight. Stargazers up and down the UK will be treated to a larger than life sight of our natural satellit… [+1822 chars]
A team of scientists from Georgia Tech say they've built a robot that can move without anything to push against - a discovery that seems to violate the law of conservation momentum. The researchers… [+3897 chars]