So while the odds have doubled, astronomers aren't too worried. When 2024 YR 4 had a risk of less than 1%, NASA's Planetary ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...

Many of us pay attention to the foods we're putting in our bodies – asking ourselves whether they're nutritious and healthy ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024. At a glance, it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill gamma ray burst, which ...

A new, detailed probe of Earth's heart reveals that the rotating inner core doesn't just change in rotation speed – it also appears to change in shape, with subtle variations appearing in the way ...

Around a galaxy just 590 million light-years away, astronomers have discovered a stunning example of one of the rarest ...

In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames.

An emerging strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spilled over from wild birds to dairy cows in the state of Nevada ...

A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.

We've yet to see a falling piece of space debris strike an airplane, but if it happens, the consequences would almost ...