Ever wondered if there are measures put in place in case of a serious global food shortage or climate catastrophe?
Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now.
While scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper, a group of astronomers identified something that has pretty much blown their minds.
Researchers have proven that there is a link between flexing with flashy cars and a deep-down need to over/compensate for something.
There’s a new male contraceptive pill that has the potential to be a complete game changer.
With an (almost) billionaire’s brain, Bryan has been behaving badly.
May the force be with us if they ever decide to bring dinosaurs back.
This tech mogul has such an extreme approach to exercise and skincare that critics have compared him to the narcissistic character in ‘American Psycho’.
A new study has shown that exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) lights used in gel manicure lamps can damage skin cell DNA.
The new dataset is made up of 21 400 shots that took two years to take, containing a staggering 3,32 billion celestial objects.
If everything goes as planned, humans will once again walk on the Moon in 2025.
The Microsoft founder answers some of Reddit’s burning questions.
Eagle-eyed Facebook sleuths have pinpointed an odd-looking fellow appearing as though he is talking on a cellphone in a 1940s photograph.
The SLS lifted off from Kennedy Space Centre early Wednesday morning and sent the Orion spacecraft on a 25-day journey to the Moon and back.
A new study has found that cats seem to understand when you are talking to them, and when you are using ‘cat talk’ versus normal human-to-human talk.
Wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas took that shot of the highly magnified ant photo, and actually, he can get lost with it.
It is alleged that the scientists have been working without the consent of their donors, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
An awesome photo of Earth made waves on the internet. The image featured two blue ominous orbs, hovering over our planet.
The simulation, exploring what would happen if a 500-kilometre-wide asteroid collided with Earth, doesn’t really make for cosy viewing.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has called out some of Tom Cruise’s stunts, saying “his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm”.
We’ve only ever seen this icy giant in great detail when NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe to fly past it for just a few hours in 1989.
The three teams of scientists who took home this year’s honours all have one thing in common – their projects were accidental but pioneering breakthroughs.
The latest showcase is of the Orion Nebula, a star nursery located 1 350 light-years from Earth in the Orion constellation, now revealed in incredible detail.
Earlier this year, a panel of experts from the US National Academies recommended a mission to the ice giant.
Being 161 000 light-years away was no problem for the highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, which captured the cosmic arachnid in stunning detail.
The remarkable gold-plated, infrared eyes have been capturing far-flung galaxies as well as shedding light on a bevvy of scientific questions and concerns.
A study published this week, inspired by a photography project by Canadian artist, François Brunelle, has analysed the DNA of unrelated doppelgängers.
NASA released the first track of the void, in a listenable form fit for human ears, and it really is rather unsettling.
While seeing the Cartwheel Galaxy in such clear light is impressive, a new video released by the European Space Agency shows just how incredibly far away it actually is.
A particularly powerful bolt of lightning, which darted upwards from a thunderstorm in Oklahoma, delivered the largest charge transfer to space on record.