Science

Looking at today’s birds, it’s hard to imagine they’re the direct descendants of dinosaurs, perhaps the largest and…

It’s strange how we get used to what was once extraordinary. At the start of July, two spacecraft…

Researchers have developed a new kind of robot that flies through the air, swims through the water, and…

As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires continues to spread across large parts of North America, bringing hazardous…

A team of scientists says they have, for the first time, discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet…

Ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin at St Mary’s Hospital in London in 1928, antibiotics have provided a…

The sun shone feebly through the thick haze. The smell of burning wood hung thick in the air.…

The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the…

Live somewhere that doesn’t get much sunlight? That could soon be changing. The FCC has approved a startup’s…

Illustration of a black hole that is growing in response to an influx of energy. New research from…

The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly…

An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss China’s Tianwen-1…

“It could sprint at 40mph and had a huge skull with a deadly-looking, hooked beak and swallowed its prey whole…” 10 deadliest prehistoric birds ever