Nasa’s giant new moon rocket has moved to the launchpad in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The trip could blast off in February.
The 98-metre (322ft) rocket began its 1mph (1.6km/h) creep from…
NASA will soon run a high‑stakes fueling test on its Artemis II rocket, a practice run that must succeed before four astronauts can fly around the moon.
The U.S. space agency inched…
A 2003 marine heat wave in the waters around Greenland continues to impact North Atlantic ocean ecosystems decades on, with a sudden and strong increase in marine heat wave frequency persisting ever since.
Marine biologists from Germany and…
For decades, scientists have debated whether early humans truly took on the largest animals around them or merely stumbled across the leftovers.
Massive bones and stone tools often turn up side by side at ancient sites, but nature can easily mix…
By creating a new map of Antarctica’s subterranean landscape, researchers have uncovered a vast topography of previously hidden hills,…
Far below where sunlight can reach, subtle marks in Moroccan stone suggest that life left a record in a place long assumed to be erased by time.
The finding matters because it challenges where scientists think fragile traces of early ecosystems…
Astronomers in Europe have identified an unexpected feature hidden inside the famous Ring Nebula. The discovery was made by a team led by researchers at UCL (University College London) and Cardiff University, who found a narrow, bar shaped cloud…
BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — China’s Fengyun-3D satellite has found that the world’s formerly largest iceberg, A23a, is entering the final stages of its disintegration, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
True-color imagery…
Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, roughly one-fifth the width of a human hair, each cell contains a dense mix of proteins, organelles, and molecular machinery. Being able to place tiny…
Bacteriophages — viruses that prey on bacteria — are nature’s tiniest predators. On Earth, their lives are…