Category: 7. Science

The top official at Nasa says that the chance of alien existence is a factor in how the US space agency plans its missions.

Speaking on Sunday, Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman told CNN’s Meet the Press that investigating the existence of alien…

Proposals to deploy reflective mirrors and up to 1m more satellites in low Earth orbit could have far-reaching consequences for human health and ecosystems, leading sleep and circadian rhythm researchers have said.

Presidents of four international…

A new study has found that Australopithecus, an extinct group of early human relatives that lived in Africa millions of years ago, experienced pelvic strain during childbirth nearly as intense as that seen in modern human labor.

That finding…

As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years. A lot us have asked ourselves just exactly why you’d send people out that far when the environment is so hostile and we have increasingly…

Early observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have already revealed more than 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, reshaping our view of the solar system and offering a striking preview of what’s to come once full science operations…

All his working life, the zoologist Athol McLachlan, who has died aged 86, was fascinated by chironomid midges, tiny, non-biting flies that spend most of their lives as aquatic larvae before emerging briefly as adults. His work on these…

Volcanic lightning looks chaotic, but it starts with something surprisingly small. Inside towering ash clouds, tiny grains of rock slam into each other over and over again, building up electric charge until the sky suddenly flashes.

Scientists…