A cup of mud that has been buried beneath the floor of a cave for millennia has just yielded up...
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A binary star just 1,500 light-years away is spiraling towards a spectacular doom. HD265435 consists of a type of dead...
Water ice isn’t exactly known for its flexibility. In fact, it’s quite the opposite: rigid and brittle, easily fracturing and...
When a star is born, the leftover dust and gas in the cloud from which it formed doesn’t just sit...
When the Cassini-Huygens probe dove through the salty plumes belching from the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, it made an...
The Sun appears to be waking up from the quiet period of its 11-year cycle. On 3 July 2021, at...
Phosphine gas detected in the atmosphere of Venus could have a volcanic origin after all, new research has found. An...
The way a planet is tilted on its rotational axis with respect to its orbital plane around a star –...
Earth is not the only world adorned with the glowing atmospheric phenomenon that is aurora. In fact, in a Solar...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of...
Psilocybin, the active psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, has some curious effects on the human brain. There’s the obvious, of...
Scientists have invented a product that can encourage tooth enamel to grow back, which means we could finally have a...
