With a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus has been left alone by space agencies for a decade. Now we are about to learn more about its climate – and the chances of life on other planets
Helpful changes have resulted from attention to unexplained aerial phenomena.
Astronomers are revelling at the discovery of a white dwarf that is the largest ever seen. White dwarfs are the collapsed remnants of stars, and this latest find is roughly the size of the Moon and 1.35 times more massive than the Sun. Researchers at the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory made the discovery. To help characterize the dead star, astronomers turned to the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea and University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakalā, Maui.
Two astronauts work for seven hours outside Tiangong station, in first of two spacewalks planned for mission
Scientists say that plastic bottles can be used to create vanilla flavouring, which would reduce pollution and help supply the global demand for this spice
A tiny piece of bone that once belonged to a giant Ice Age deer is changing how we think about Neanderthals.
An underwater explosion launched a towering column of fire into the sky over the gas-rich Caspian Sea on Sunday, in a stunning display said to have been caused by a so-called “mud volcano” in Azerbaijan.
It is a mystery that has confounded experts for centuries – how were huge stones transported 180 miles (290km) from the Preseli Hills to Stonehenge?
For the first time, astronomers have observed black holes gobbling up neutron stars “like Pac Man.”
The technology that surveys our skies isn’t designed to spot and identify everything that flies.
