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Scientists plan to use the August 12 total solar eclipse, visible along a narrow path including northern Spain, as a rare chance to study the Sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and solar weather. The eclipse will briefly darken a route from northern Russia thro…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the Moon as predicted on Wednesday, scientists said, after a telescope in Chile detected evidence of debris from the impact. The European Southern Observatory said its Very Large Telescope recorded spectral lines fro…
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe flew 400 metres from the near-Earth asteroid Torifune on July 5 in what Japan's space agency said was the closest recorded asteroid flyby mission. The fridge-sized probe passed 400 metres from the asteroid's surface and 744 metres from…
Bone fragments very likely belonging to a woolly mammoth have been found on the exposed bed of the Danube near the northeastern Bulgarian city of Ruse, a local museum director said. Nikolay Nenov, director of the Regional Historical Museum, told AFP that spec…
Amina Helmi, an astronomer at the University of Groningen, has won a share of the Kavli Prize for research using stars as evidence of the Milky Way's violent past. Helmi, originally from Argentina, is a leading researcher in galactic archaeology, a field that…
Scientists have identified a new dinosaur species from Zimbabwe, Musango matusadonaensis, from a skeleton excavated on the shores of Lake Kariba in northern Zimbabwe in 2018. The international team of palaeontologists said the dinosaur lived about 210 million…
The United States said Tuesday it plans to let some environmental requirements be waived for commercial space launches, reentries and spaceport operations as it seeks to speed the private space industry. The Trump administration’s proposed rule would allow re…
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, offering the strongest evidence yet that one of the night sky's most famous stars is not alone. The finding was based on observations by the European Southern Observatory…
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who created the Body Worlds exhibitions of preserved human and animal bodies, has died aged 81, his family said on Monday. His team said he died on Friday. Von Hagens had asked for his own body to be preserved through…
SpaceX's Starship completed a test flight on Friday, its first since the company went public, with the spacecraft splashing down intact in the Indian Ocean after an approximately one-hour flight. Elon Musk, the head of the company, said on X that Starship was…
A Chinese university said on Sunday that it is investigating reports that a gene-editing trial caused the death of a six-year-old girl and that the death was not disclosed in published research. The girl, identified by the pseudonym Mei, died last year about…
A floating research station shaped like a large aluminium igloo has left the western French port of Lorient for a long-term Arctic mission designed to drift with sea ice while studying biodiversity and climate change. The Tara Polar Station was built in Franc…
India’s first privately built orbital rocket took its maiden flight on Saturday, according to its builder Skyroot Aerospace, in a step linked by officials to India’s efforts to expand its role in the global space economy. The Vikram-1 rocket took off from the…
Skyroot Aerospace said on Saturday, 18 July, that India's first privately built orbital rocket completed its maiden flight. The company said in a post on X that Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 had completed its mission and that the first Indian private sector launch…
SpaceX scrubbed a planned Starship test flight on Thursday, calling it off just as the booster began to ignite. Company head Elon Musk wrote on X that some engines did not start, triggering an automatic launch abort, and that the company was offloading propel…
Seeds from South Africa's rooibos plant are due to travel to the International Space Station for an experiment on how they respond to space conditions, organisers announced Thursday. The mission, facilitated by MaxIQ Space, is planned for October. The South A…
Researchers on the Aeolian island of Vulcano, off Sicily, are testing whether drones can help measure volcanic gases and improve efforts to anticipate eruptions. A team from the Technical University of Munich is testing a system in which a ground sensor sends…