Mar 12, 2024 06:49 am UTC| Science
Total solar eclipses have fascinated and terrified people for centuries. Today, we know that total solar eclipses like the upcoming eclipse on April 8 are caused by a cosmic coincidence when the moon comes between the...
Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration
Mar 07, 2024 07:39 am UTC| Science
Humans have long dreamed of setting foot on the Moon and other planetary bodies such as Mars. Since the 1960s, space travellers have donned suits designed to protect them from the vacuum of space and stepped out into the...
The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day
Feb 20, 2024 11:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Scientists have no reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell, perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale. Hell has been imagined as a supremely uncomfortable place, hot and hostile to bodily forms of...
Why now is the time to address humanity’s impact on the moon
Feb 05, 2024 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Humans have always looked at the sky, using the stars as navigation guides or for spiritual storytelling. Every human civilization has looked to the stars and used celestial movements to measure time and find...
Black hole, neutron star or something new? We discovered an object that defies explanation
Jan 19, 2024 10:07 am UTC| Science
Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we cant easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we report such a discovery, which is likely to spark discussion and speculation. Neutron stars...
Jan 09, 2024 23:06 pm UTC| Science
What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter of a century, scientists have believed normal stuff like atoms and molecules that make up you, me, Earth,...
Six space missions to look forward to in 2024
Jan 04, 2024 04:40 am UTC| Science
Its going to be a bumper time for space missions in 2024 especially to the Moon, our nearest neighbour. And thats following on from an already epic 2023. Im a laboratory scientist, so I always like to have a proper...
Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely