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Their careful reports placed the heavenly visitor between two Chinese constellations, Chuanshe and Huagai. But then the guest star disappeared, seemingly ...

However, scientists have been speculating for some time about primates' and other animals' awareness of death,” study co-author Alecia Carter, a lecturer in ...

In the ongoing quest to understand what makes a good wildlife habitat, surprising new research shows there may be too much of a good thing when it comes to ...

Four amateur astronauts returned from a three-day private spaceflight this weekend overflowing with enthusiasm about the experience. "Best ride of my life," ...

Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma-rays that until now had not been associated with a known origin.

Globular clusters (GCs) are collections of tightly bound stars orbiting galaxies. Astronomers perceive them as natural laboratories enabling studies on the ...

On the U.S. East Coast, the Harvest Moon will emerge just above the eastern horizon at 7:13 p.m. EDT on the evening of Monday (Sept. 20). It will properly reach ...

It is part of the drive to get more people protected ahead of winter as the pandemic continues.

During a research cruise off the coast of New Zealand, a team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich geobiologist Gert Wörheide discovered ...

The all-civilian SpaceX crew of the Inspiration4 gushed about their "awe-inspiring" trip to orbit last week in an exclusive interview on TODAY Monday, ...

Drugs charity The Loop found four 'pharaoh' pills in Manchester contained different substances.

A 25-year-old Indian-born space scientist, Priya Patel, has started an NGO which aims at offering support to Indian students from low socio-economic strata ...

Natalie Rushton has added her signature to the letter to Boris Johnson, which was also signed by hundreds of other people with motor neurone disease. Tomorrow, ...

The positive trial results could pave the way for vaccinating children younger than 12, if approved.

SpaceX took another step towards launching the orbital version of its Starship last week with the release of a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment ...

The lunar cycle means that the full moon tends to fall on slightly different date from month to month – here are all the key dates for 2021.

Pluto has been among the most controversial and most debated topics in the astronomical field. Just years after the world entered the 21s century, the ninth ...

Bone tools found in Morocco date to as much as 120,000 years ago and were used to skin wildcats and small canines for their pelts, a Max Planck team posits.

Researcher Dr Aled Roberts said: "Scientists have been trying to develop viable technologies to produce concrete-like materials on the surface of Mars, but we ...

Fleets of private satellites orbiting Earth will be visible to the naked eye in the next few years, sometimes all night long.