Scientists watched a black hole eating a star
Scientists have seen the vast blast thrown out by a black hole eating a star for the first ever time. Researchers have finally watched the formation and expansion of the...
Scientists have seen the vast blast thrown out by a black hole eating a star for the first ever time. Researchers have finally watched the formation and expansion of the...
The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to introduce “solar roads” that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of the roads. The effort is aimed at...
As Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues to release lava following two weeks of violent eruptions, now is a good a time as any to explore the science behind the rocky magma-spewers....
A tiny meteorite from Mars nicknamed “Black Beauty” has provided scientists with an unprecedented insight into ancient processes that shaped the red planet’s surface. Discovered in the Sahara desert and...
Octopuses are aliens. That’s the claim being made by a team of 33 researchers published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. They are not referring to aliens in a metaphorical sense,...
A fleet of Nasa spacecraft have finally helped solve a long-standing mystery about the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists have used the data from the four spacecraft that are part of...
The long-lost art of the world’s first major global war has been rediscovered inside a historic manor house complex in the Kent countryside. Eighteen images of ships, scratched on the...
The discovery of a new planet around the Kepler-90 star, which looks like our own sun, means the distant solar system has a total of eight known planets. And those...
An entirely new theory about the moon’s origins has been proposed by scientists, who say it is a better fit than current ideas about how the Earth’s closest neighbour was...
A team of scientists they have solved the mystery of Earth’s “missing nitrogen”, a discovery with significant implications for climate change. Nitrogen is vital for plant growth, so its availability...