SpaceX's Starship megarocket deployed Starlink satellites after reaching orbit for the first time on Monday during its 14th test flight. A livestream showed next-generation satellites slowly exiting the Starship upper stage, adding to Elon Musk's satellite in…
Scientists have identified the Tilcayo tiger cat in Bolivia as the first new wild cat species described in more than a century, biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz said. The small spotted feline, now given the scientific name Leopardus tilcayo, was found in the…
A NASA researcher has found a 222-metre-wide crater on the Moon that scientists described as a rare impact event, NASA said. NASA said the crater, named McGetchin, is believed to have formed in spring 2024 when a comet or asteroid hit the Moon. Researchers de…
SpaceX plans to send its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time next week, with liftoff scheduled from Texas at 7:15 a.m. local time, 1215 GMT, on Tuesday. The company co-founded by Elon Musk said the test flight would be the 14th Starship flight and w…
People in Bronze Age Syria were using specialised pots and imported ingredients for sophisticated cooking 4,500 years ago, Danish researchers said. Mette Marie Hald of the National Museum of Copenhagen and her team reached the conclusion after examining anima…
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe on Thursday to develop its own crewed spaceflight capability within a decade, saying the continent's space programme remained fragile and needed more effort. Speaking at an international space summit in Paris, Mac…
European Space Agency chief Josef Aschbacher called on Wednesday for Europe to invest 10 billion euros over 10 years to build greater independence in the space sector. Aschbacher made the appeal during an international space summit in Paris. Several US compan…
Senegalese engineers are assembling Gaindesat-1B, a nanosatellite intended to collect environmental and climate data, as the country tries to build more of its…
Canada is trying to attract US-based researchers as some scientists leave American posts over funding restrictions and pressure on universities under President Donald Trump's administration. American epidemiologist Sheryl Magzamen has moved from the Universit…
An Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has uncovered a 4,300-year-old tomb near Cairo belonging to Yunmen, an ancient judge-like official who heard the com…
Rome’s Baths of Trajan, an ancient bathing and leisure complex near the Colosseum and Roman Forum, are opening to visitors for the first time, the city’s mayor…
Germany's Isar Aerospace said its 28-metre Spectrum rocket reached orbit after lifting off from Norway's Andoya spaceport on Saturday, calling it the first pri…
A study on splashback from men's urinals won the Ig Nobel physics prize in Zurich, one of the annual alternative awards for unusual scientific work. The prize-winning team included researchers from the United States, Canada, China and Saudi Arabia. The resear…
The 2026 Ig Nobel prizes honoured projects including urinals designed to prevent splashing, underwear buried to test soil quality and experiments involving researchers stepping on venomous snakes. The 36th edition of the annual awards, organised by the scienc…
BepiColombo's European and Japanese probes separated from their transfer module on Thursday, completing a key step in the spacecraft's high-risk arrival phase…
SpaceX and Blue Origin are among four US companies that have cancelled their attendance at a Paris space summit next week, France's higher education, research…
Researchers in northeastern Thailand have identified two new dinosaur species this year, highlighting what scientists say is one of Southeast Asia's most impor…