- NASA's Perseverance rover has switched from photographing the Ingenuity helicopter's test flights, to searching for signs of long gone Martian life. The US space agency confirmed that the SUV-sized rover has started to test the ancient lakebed in the…
- NASA has unfolded the giant mirror of its James Webb Space Telescope 'like a piece of origami artwork' one last time ahead of its launch to space in October. The orbiting observatory has been designed as a successor to the highly successful Hubble…
- Sounds made by our ancestors to describe everything from 'tiger' to 'water' are the root of all languages, and can be understood by anyone, a study claims. A team from the University of Birmingham tested whether people from different language…
- Britain's largest chalk hill figure, the Cerne Giant, was created in the late Saxon period, not as an insult to Oliver Cromwell as previously thought, a new study reveals. Archaeologists working for the National Trust carried out state-of-the-art…
- Five double-star systems, each with a planet capable of supporting life, have been discovered by a team of scientists using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope. University of Illinois scientists used the Kepler data to create a new methodology…
- Watching meaningful movies such as Up or Slumdog Millionaire can help us feel more prepared to deal with challenges and want to be a better person, a new study shows. Ohio State University researchers created two lists of films made after 1985 with…
- Forests covering an area the size of France have regrown around the world since 2000, storing the equivalent of 5.9 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, a new study shows. The Trillion Trees project, founded in 2016 to protect and restore forests…
- Yawning helps to cool the brain and does not function to oxygenate our blood, according to scientists, who also found vertebrates with larger brains yawn longer. Researchers from Utrecht University collected over 1,250 yawns from more than 100…
- NASA's Voyager-1 spacecraft, travelling outside the solar system, has sent back new data revealing a 'hum' given off by interstellar gas 14 billion miles from the Earth. The spacecraft, currently further away from the Earth than any human-made object…
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will leave asteroid Bennu today and begin its 1.4 billion mile, two year long journey back to the Earth, the space agency confirmed. OSIRIS-REx (the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security,…