Every breath of air, every strand of DNA and every cell in my body carries a chemical story that began long before Earth ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

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In their desperate search for another Shadowsmith, the Zombies crew find themselves stranded on an abandoned observatory that drifts silently within ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

John Westbrooke sees a British painter who mingled the Enlightenment and the darkly Gothic There’s a lot going on in Joseph Wright’s “The Air Pump”, the 1768 centrepiece of the latest ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) near Sutherland is celebrating 20 years of observing the night sky.

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Astronomers are reporting new findings about 3I/ATLAS, the rare interstellar comet now moving through the outer solar system, as NASA and research institutions expand monitoring of the object's ...

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China search for Earth 2.0 leads a bold 2026–2030 space plan to probe the early universe, our Sun, and Earth-like exoplanets.

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible warp-drive designs and detection methods.