Lakes under Antarctica desert may support life, so maybe life on Mars
Under the dry valleys in Antarctica there are several interconnected lakes and brine-saturated sediments that could sustain life, and if so, dramatically increase the...
Meteorite hunt underway from giant fireball, could be worth a lot of money
A giant fireball was seen flying over Britain and Ireland on Sunday evening. The meteor is believed to have crashed somewhere in Ireland or...
Saturn moon Hyperion looks like a porous sea sponge in stunning image
When unmanned spacecraft Cassini flew by Hyperion, one of Saturn’s outer moons, it took this stunning image of the potato-shaped celestial body that looks like a...
Ceres mysterious bright spot – NASA wants your opinion
NASA is calling on members of the public to vote on what they think the mysterious bright spot is on the dwarf planet Ceres,...
3D map of Universe most comprehensive yet, spans nearly 2bn light years
The most comprehensive 3D map of the Universe has been created by astrophysicists from Canada and France, who say it spans almost two billion...
MoS2 performance improved dramatically with boron nitride encapsulation, like graphene
The performance of 2-dimensional material MoS2 (molybdenum disulfide) can be significantly improved by encapsulation in boron nitride, say scientists from the US, Japan, Denmark...
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft about to crash into Mercury at 8750 mph
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which left Earth in 2004 to study Mercury, will crash into the planet’s surface as soon as it runs out of propellant,...
T-Rex cousin Chilesaurus, a vegetarian, has scientists baffled
A seven-year old boy Diego Suárez discovered the bones of a turkey-sized cousin of T-Rex - Chilesaurus diegosuarezi - that was vegetarian and lived at the...
The Universe may be a hologram
Describing the Universe may not require as many dimensions as people think. According to new calculations, this may be a fundamental feature of space...
75% of very hot days due to man-made global warming, study claims
Man-made global warming is currrently responsible for 75% of extremely hot days across the world, say two Swiss scientists, who added that we are...