Science

Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a…

A reward of up to £3,000 (€3,509) is being offered for information leading to any arrest and conviction…

Key takeaways Researchers have demonstrated that phonons, atomic heat-carrying vibrations with quantum properties, can travel in focused, ray-like…

NASA is shaking things up for its next mission to research the sun. The six satellites of NASA’s…

A captive-bred Partula tohiveana tree snail (right) and a newly born juvenile (left) move across a green leaf.…

Topline Several along the northern U.S. border may have a chance to see the northern lights Thursday, as…

Skylab began as one of the most ambitious machines the United States had ever placed in orbit and…

KeysQuestions4Explore4 Rye Park wind farm — Australia’s largest onshore — has quietly become the deadliest wind site on…

For several years now, astronomers who study the sun have faced a little mystery — our star seemed…

Uisce Éireann is extending its hosepipe ban nationwide, bringing every county under water restrictions from just after midnight…

The surface of Mars is no place for anything fragile. Radiation pours down, and the ground’s chemistry tears…

In the quantum realm, getting electrons to march to the same beat is famously difficult. But forcing them…

Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn’s moon Titan