"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

CHORD is also designed to be a prolific detector of transient signals that are fleeting but can be equally revealing. They ...

From new telescopes going online to another mission to the Moon, NASA has a lot of big changes coming in 2026. Here are some ...

In December, China announced new tariffs on beef imports from suppliers such as Argentina and Brazil, currently its two largest sources for the commodity. China published its third official policy ...

While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that ...

When news broke that the company behind Solfest had gone into liquidation, it marked a major moment for one of Cumbria’s best ...

When news broke that the company behind Solfest had gone into liquidation, it marked a major moment for one of Cumbria’s best-known ...

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

Scientists watched a solar flare grow from tiny magnetic sparks into a violent plasma-raining avalanche on the Sun.

The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

This is not an individual solid shell around the star, as an astronomer named Jason Wright explained the appearance of a plausible energy-harvesting system would appear at a great distance: not a ...