Category: Science

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

Making your own microscope slides can be fun and easy with these simple-to-follow tips — including dry and wet mounting, plus crafty alternatives.

The unusual grave of a Bedouin woman who may have been buried with her son was found in southern Israel.

Songbird bones found in a Roman-era trash pit on Mallorca suggests they were a tasty tweet.

A neutron star’s final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B.

At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical way of thinking

The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a set of dramatic, intimate portraits

For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal our star’s

Astronomers have discovered a new class of bright, long-lasting cosmic explosions that offer a new probe into studying the universe’s most distant black holes.

Scientists are developing a new device that fits inside a menstrual pad and checks for “biomarkers” of disease in period blood.

California’s earthquakes are far more likely to be “overdue” compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

A new species of dinosaur that was probably a princely ancestor of T. rex, the king of the dinosaurs, has been identified from fossils excavated

Last night’s “Strawberry Moon” hovered lower in the night sky than it had done since 2006. Here are some stunning global snaps of June’s full