If we told you not to think about a red apple, would an image of a red apple immediately pop
Titan is a mystery as mighty as its namesake. A thick haze of atmospheric nitrogen conceals the moon’s surface from
All the way back in 1999, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science was celebrating its 35th
Something is glowing at the heart of the Milky Way – there’s more diffuse gamma radiation than can be explained
A strange encounter between fishermen and a mysteriously geared-up white beluga whale in the Barents Sea off the coast of
Extraterrestrial life, that familiar science-fiction trope, that kitschy fantasy, that CGI nightmare, has become a matter of serious discussion, a
The push away from needless plastic use is a noble and necessary one, but new research casts doubt over just
Within half a century, it’s possible that Facebook could be overrun by the dead, with more deceased users making up
Some 7,800 light-years away, in the constellation of Cygnus, lies a most peculiar black hole. It’s called V404 Cygni, and
It came out of nowhere. Just a few short weeks ago – in an alternate reality otherwise identical to our
For as long as we’ve explored the oceans there have been tales of monsters lurking below. No doubt many sightings
In the bewildering quagmire that is the gas between the stars, the Hubble Space Telescope has identified evidence of ionised
At the end of Avengers: Infinity War half the people (including heroes and villains) in the universe were gone in
It may soon be legal for the dead to push daisies, or any other flower, in backyard gardens across Washington
Pulsars are possibly the most useful object in the sky. Dead stars, rotating incredibly fast and pulsing out a beam
The U.S. Navy is working on new guidelines for its personnel to report sightings and other encounters with “unidentified aircraft,”
You can be thankful that we orbit a placid, main sequence, yellow dwarf star. Astronomers recently spied a massive superflare
In February of 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs).
Special Relativity. It’s been the bane of space explorers, futurists and science fiction authors since Albert Einstein first proposed it
For the northernmost herbivores on Earth, foraging for food has never been easy. Bound to the icy tundras of an
The oceans hide all kinds of secrets and unknowns in the deep – like the 195,728 viruses that scientists just
The mysterious purple skyglow named STEVE was unmasked last year. Physicists proved that STEVE was not a new kind of
Pikachu, a well-loved housecat who died in January from complications following a battle with diabetes, is going to blast off.
The latest measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe is in, and it has confirmed with more certainty than
Any night owls reading this will be familiar with the struggle of constantly trying to fit into a morning person’s
For five nights, the skies above Jean Dean’s home were dark and clear. Here in her backyard, on the remote
Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago — and behold, it
Thanks to the XENON1T dark matter detector lodged under the Gran Sasso mountains of Italy, scientists have recorded one of
Deep in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest live tiny frogs that are bright orange, toxic, and glow ultraviolet, thanks to revelations
Earth is often in the firing line of fragments of asteroids and comets, most of which burn up tens of
Going to space is serious business. How serious? Well, let this video from NASA astronaut Drew Feustel tell you. Feustel
A bone once thought to be almost lost to evolution and rare in modern humans is making a strange comeback.
When Jean-Paul Marat’s killer, Charlotte Corday, was executed by guillotine in 1793, a man named Francois le Gros allegedly lifted
Given the fervour with which naturalists scoured Southeast Asia in the 19th century looking for new bird species, you’d think
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at what could be the announcement of a brain-machine interface that could one day
The spoken word is a powerful tool, but not all of us have the ability to use it, either due
Scientists have observed the clearest evidence yet of an incredibly rare and exotic theoretical phase of matter called a supersolid
NASA’s InSight Mars lander may have recorded its first ‘Marsquake’ – seismic tremors, faint but unmistakable deep in the belly
Apes . . . well, ape. Two gorillas at Virunga National Park in Congo have taken the Internet by storm by posing
We now know what it looks like when a spacecraft lobs a bomb at an asteroid. Earlier in April, the
Since it was first launched on 24 April 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.4 million observations
Even if death metal isn’t a perfect fit for you as far as music genres go, you have to admire
In 2015, NASA revealed that Earth’s oceans are rising faster than expected, and the space agency projected that we’re now
For the first time, engineers have demonstrated how ‘bubbles’ of lighter grains can form in sand, just as they can
California is notorious for its earthquakes, but a stunning new discovery reveals for the first time just how much we’ve
Slime mould might easily be one of the strangest life forms on our planet. They are neither plants, animals, nor
Have you ever seen a giant red jellyfish light up the night sky for a split second? If you have,
In the Hollywood blockbuster The Core, the planet’s core suddenly stops rotating, causing Earth’s magnetic field to collapse. Then bursts
