The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has made a chilling prediction that our sun is almost halfway through its life span and when it reaches the end, it will swell and obliterate our pla… [+7214 chars]
A new image produced by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals new details of Stephan's Quintet, the very first compact galaxy group ever discovered that was featured in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderf… [+8048 chars]
The universe's most massive known star just got its best ever close-up, and it reveals the star might be smaller than astronomers previously thought. Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in … [+3189 chars]
SpaceX has launched another batch of Starlink satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) onboard a Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Starlink Group 4-27 mission. Liftoff occurred on Friday, August 19 at 3:21… [+6586 chars]
Monash University scientists have challenged the conventional wisdom that biological patterns are explained by physical constraints. In a study published today in Science, the researchers present th… [+3010 chars]
by Luke Barnes, Miroslav Filipovic, Ray Norris and Velibor Velovi, The ConversationAstronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning mo… [+3888 chars]
It gets weirder: Some giant planets that spark star-killing ejections may also bring new worlds into existence as they are immolated in the stellar furnace. You can have a planet that is engulfed, th… [+1956 chars]
Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming out party. Their rates of evolution and diversity started exploding,… [+6074 chars]
Monkeys in Indonesia get their rocks off using actual rocks, supporting what's known as the sex toy hypothesis, a new study finds. Researchers studying long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) f… [+3161 chars]
Tiny fragments of rock brought back from an asteroid in near-Earth solar orbit are so old, they predate the Solar System. A new analysis of samples of asteroid Ryugu has revealed the presence of min… [+3557 chars]
Improve Your Decision-Making with These 10 Cognitive Razors The average adult makes about 35,000 conscious decisions each day. Given this sheer volume of choice, how do we ensure were making the ri… [+4083 chars]
It gets weirder: Some giant planets that spark star-killing ejections may also bring new worlds into existence as they are immolated in the stellar furnace. You can have a planet that is engulfed, th… [+1956 chars]
