Science

You are sitting still, more or less, but the galaxy beneath you is not. The Milky Way and…

This week’s science news was filled with things missing and found, with the revelation of the first-ever deep-sea…

NEED TO KNOW NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center…

Nestled in the Great Basin, a remote stretch of the Nevada desert is set to become home to…

Many killers work alone. Others work in teams, mobs, troops, flocks, gangs, pods or shoals. Here’s our pick…

View larger. | This globe map shows the South Pole-Aitken basin (blue) and surrounding regions. Here we see…

Quick Facts What it is: OMC-2 molecular cloud Where it is: 1,280 light-years away in the constellation Orion…

Images of whale remains and the community of creatures that live on them – credit, Zhou et al.…

River studied in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau – Credit: Liwei Zhang Thawing permafrost is considered a growing source of…

The story of Stonehenge starts around 5,000 years ago. But its famous old stones, some of which were…

It took us millions of years to figure out how to fly, and we still can’t do it…

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this illustration, launched into Earth orbit in November 2004. NASA’s Goddard…

Our galaxy and its neighbours are racing through space at more than two million kilometres an hour, caught in a tug-of-war between the gravity of distant superclusters ahead and a vast, near-empty void shoving us from behind