In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of ...

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DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were ...

It is aimed at stopping terrorism and radicalisation, but devastating attacks and high-profile reviews have meant Prevent has been under scrutiny since it started. The government programme has ...

As the old adage goes, “When it rains, it pours.” This is precisely the case for residents and businesses of the embattled Ditsobotla Local Municipality in the North West. Violent clashes have ...

IN the modern age, it's hard to imagine that there's anywhere on Earth that we haven't fully explored. But there are surprisingly large chunks of Earth that civilisation has yet to fully probe.