Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the…
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Gravity pulls us to Earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as…
A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden…
The “music” of starquakes – enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many…
On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one…
Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one…
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have…
Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the…
US astronauts Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore have been stranded in low earth orbit onboard the International Space Station for…