29+ min ago  (222+ words) An experiment on the International Space Station has shown bacteria and fungi can harvest valuable elements from space rocks. Scientists say the technique could offer a new way to support space missions without relying on Earth-based supplies. The experiment was…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (247+ words) The water needed for sustaining life could have lasted much longer on Mars than thought NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its most detailed images yet of unusual spiderweb-like formations on Mars, revealing new evidence that groundwater once shaped the Red…...

16+ hour, 31+ min ago  (492+ words) New data reveals by just how much the Mexican capital is subsiding Mexico City is sinking. In fact, it's one of the fastest-sinking capital cities in the world, and the rate at which it's sinking has now been confirmed by…...

1+ day, 45+ min ago  (1327+ words) Sought after by collectors and scientists alike for their rarity, meteorites hold a key to revealing the unimaginably distant past of the Solar System Meteorites, those rare celestial travellers that end their billion-year journeys through the Solar System by crashing…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (726+ words) A forgotten signal found by citizen scientists could be a habitable Earth-like planet. Here's how astronomers tracked it down Astronomers have discovered a planet candidate called HD 137010 b, with a size and orbit quite similar to Earth, around a star…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (290+ words) One of the largest known stars in the Universe may be entering the final stages of its life, with astronomers reporting dramatic and unusually rapid changes that could signal an eventual supernova. Research published in the journal Nature Astronomy shows…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (607+ words) New modelling suggests the Martian moon Phobos's demise could be earlier " and much more dramatic " than expected The origins of Mars's two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are still a matter of some debate. Some planetary scientists argue that they're asteroids…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (326+ words) An image of the morning Flower Moon 2026 above the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Sicily, just as dawn is breaking. Fans of the full Moon are preparing for this weekend's Flower Moon to rise in the evening sky. Giovanni Passalacqua'sent…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (321+ words) How to track the planet Jupiter in the night sky throughout 2026, including best times to see and how to observe the gas giant In May 2026, the evening sky is the best haven for seeing the planets, since the morning sky…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (466+ words) Venus and Jupiter are the best planets to see in the night sky throughout May 2026, the pair appearing like two bright stars in the evening twilight, just after sunset. Unfortunately, the other planets of the Solar System aren't as accommodating…...