Roughly two to three times Earth's distance from the Sun, in the Asteroid Belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, 16 Psyche makes its home. This...
The discovery of the extraordinary exoplanet LTT 9779b was first announced a month ago. Just 260 light-years away, the planet was immediately pegged as an excellent...
For more than two decades, astronomers have been systematically tracing mystery sources of high-energy gamma rays to their sources.
The discovery of two small dinosaurs with bat-like wings a few years ago was a palaeontologist's dream. Just how flight evolved in birds is something we're...
Monkeys, much like humans, could be engaged in the process of self-domesticating themselves, altering the course of their own evolution and physiology through the...
There comes a time in everyone's life when the brain and the body reach their peak before age begins to take its toll.
Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first flybys of Venus. The manoeuvre is designed to give the...
For the first time, astronomers have seen clear evidence of plumes of toxic volcanic gas erupting forth from the volcanoes of Io.
Scientists have created a super white paint that is the yin to Vantablack's yang.
A little dead star that dazzled us earlier this year is not done with its shenanigans.