A network of strange features discovered underground at the south pole of Mars may not be lakes of liquid salty...
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Exoplanets are tricksy little beasts. As they are very small, very dim, and very far away, seeing them directly is...
So extreme is the magnetic and gravitational environment around a black hole that we should see light bend around it...
A new study by scientists has demonstrated how researchers may be able to create an accelerating jet of antimatter from...
In 2018, a message in a bottle dating back to 1886 – 132 years ago – was found half-buried in...
A newly developed method of levitating and manipulating tiny objects using sound waves could represent a major step forward for...
The ocean is vast, and deep, and dark, and inhospitable to us feeble land-dwelling creatures. There’s much that remains unknown...
Pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Yes, water found in nature conducts electricity – but that’s because of the...
The jawbone of a bat that lived 100,000 years ago has been confirmed as belonging to an extinct species of...
All cancer is nasty, but some forms are nastier than others. Take glioblastoma, a thankfully rare form of tumor: It...
In April 1998, light from the explosive death of a massive star 120 million light-years away irradiated Earth. This was...
An immobile probe sitting like a squat turtle on the surface of Mars has finally delivered a comprehensive picture of...
