The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young planetary...
Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continues to have an impact on the biodiversity of the Amazon, a major new study shows.
A green ring of oxygen has been observed around Mars for the first time. Mars is the only planet in the universe aside from Earth where...
“It’s likely there are another two million gravitational wave events from merging black holes –a pair of merging black holes every 200 seconds and a pair...
Scientists have found evidence that large carnivorous dinosaurs lived in Australia.
A SOLAR ECLIPSE this weekend will turn the Sun into a beautiful ring of fire - but how often does an eclipse occur?
The use of a tether assisted system could prevent an asteroid impacting Earth without the risk of fragmentation. Our planet exists within the vicinity of thousands...
Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and neutron stars. A great result—but what did they miss? According...
"Why do plants have thorns?" is an easy question: The thorns help protect against hungry animals that like to munch on the plants. "Where do thorns...
Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun.