The perfect combination of factors conspired to trigger widespread bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2016. In a new study, scientists in Australia and Belgium...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket didn’t get off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Monday because something triggered an automatic abort just seconds away from lift-off,...
Stephen Hawking says that US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement could lead to irreversible climate change. Prof Hawking said...
New analysis of plasma clouds ejected by the sun suggest solar eruptions behave like a sneeze. Until now, astronomers looked at cloud-like structures of coronal mass...
Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of a ninth planet lurking beyond Pluto. But new analysis of the Kuiper Belt suggests a planetary mass is...
Earlier this spring, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover, also known as the Opportunity rover, discovered a small Martian crater. The discovery was made on the 45th anniversary...
A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree...
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore telescope has offered astronomers a detailed view of the star factory inside the Orion Nebula, one of the most famous and...
A team of researchers led by scientists at Tufts University sent a group of regular planarian flatworms into space, sealed in tubes half filled with water...
The idea that modern people evolved in a single “cradle of humanity” in East Africa some 200,000 years ago is no longer tenable, new research suggests....
An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world’s lightest satellite, which will be put into orbit at a Nasa facility in the...