Astronomers have observed 12P/Pons-Brooks and its so-called "outbursts" – sudden, large releases of dust and gas – and stargazers may be able to view it in 2024.

From Valhalla to Walhalla: This predatory mosasaur hunted Cretaceous seas some 80 million years ago.

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle accel…

"It's a pretty significant change."

When the JWST activated its penetrating infrared eyes in July 2022, it faced a massive wish-list of targets compiled by an eager international astronomy community. Distant, early galaxies, nascent planets forming in dusty disks, and the end of the universe's …

SpaceX will make another attempt Monday night to launch a Falcon 9 carrying 23 more satellites for its Starlink internet service from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for 7:20 p.m. EDT

The powerful space telescope has gazed into the Crab Nebula, looking for clues about its creation and offering us an ethereal view.

NASA's Chandra and IXPE data have been used to examine the pulsar wind nebula known as MSH 15-52 which is well-known for its shape that resembles that of a ghostly cosmic hand.

Wikipedia defines LIGO as "a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves." (It stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — that is, measuring the interference caused by superimposed …

The 510-million-year-old fossils from the Forteau Formation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, are microscopic, look like spiny balls connected together, and likely represent vegetative stages of planktic green algae.

The country aims to build on a pioneering 2016 mission with a new medium Earth orbit satellite.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has struck a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch four navigation and communication satellites into orbit.

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration has demonstrated a noise-squeezing technique for the entire range of gravitational frequencies LIGO can detect—a feat that could boost the detection rate of black hole mergers by up to 65%.

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Poland will gain its own constellation of observation satellites under an agreement with the European Space Agency that entered into force on Monday, the Ministry of Development and Technology has announced.

Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. A mechanism that caused some individuals to have fatal clotting after receiving certain forms of Covid-19 immunisation has been revealed in recent research.

Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have created a miniature robotic muscle substance that breaks through brick walls.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko was told to stop the spacewalk after encountering a blob of coolant

Scientists in Warwick use the James Webb Space Telescope to analyse the rare cosmic event.

Scientists in Warwick use the James Webb Space Telescope to analyse the rare cosmic event.

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It was, to put it mildly, a <a href="/lifestyle/science/good-day-die-doom-dinosaurs-came-springtime-2022-02-23/">bad day on Earth</a> when an asteroid smacked Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, causing a global calamity that erased three-quarter…

75 years ago Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory," showed how information transmission can be quantified mathematically, namely via the so-called information transmission rate.

Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. They have shown that a single cat hair contains DNA which could link a suspect and a crime-scene, or a victim.