Astrophysicists who set out to map the building blocks of life across space have found precursor molecules lurking in dust clouds destined to become future solar...
The mess created by an encounter between a black hole and an unlucky star has yielded a rare and incredible treasure. By measuring the X-radiation as...
Dogs often seem uncannily shrewd about what we’re trying to tell them. A handful of recent studies offer surprising insights into the ways our canine companions...
Poor old Jupiter. It’s just hanging out there, being a gas giant, shepherding trojans, minding its own business, and boom. Smacked upside by a stray space...
Scientists have found what may be the earliest evidence of clothing manufacture in a cave in Morocco, dating back 120,000 years. It can be easy to...
A Mozart sonata that can calm epileptic brain activity may get its therapeutic power thanks to melodies that create a sense of surprise, according to a...
Today, history was made when the first all-civilian spaceflight launched from Launch Complex 39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The purpose of this...
If you think Mars is an inhospitable place now, you’re not wrong… but it seems the planet’s current state is relatively mild in comparison to its...
Incredibly well-preserved tracks of prehistoric baby elephants have revealed a crucial, ancient stomping ground for one of the largest animals to walk on Earth’s surface since...
Ancient New Zealand has been home to an incredible array of absurdly large birds. This has included a waist-high parrot, nicknamed Squawk-zilla (Heracles inexpectatus) – the...