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A mysterious flying object can be seen moving across the sky below one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets following a recent space launch. Incredible footage of the UFO was picked…
The burial chamber of Khentkaus III, a royal leader of the Old Kingdom, was discovered in the necropolis of Abusir, southwest of Cairo, some 650 feet from her husband, Pharaoh…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The official investigation concluded that the most likely scenario is that the…
After almost 350 years, physicists have just arrived at a statistical solution for Newton’s three-body problem – that is, the problem of figuring out how three similar objects or bodies…
No two planets in the Solar System are exactly alike, but we can broadly categorise them – rocky worlds Earth, Venus, Mercury and Mars; gas giants Saturn and Jupiter; ice…
Perhaps you remember the opening scene of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone that took place on Privet Drive. A bearded man pulled a mysterious device, called a deluminator, from…
The speed at which our planet warms could impact local temperatures even more than the overall level of global warming itself, a new study suggests. This indicates that a global…
When scientists at the Dalian Natural History Museum in China copped a load of a fossil unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, they couldn’t believe their eyes. The eight-legged…
By listening to the muffled sound of our planet’s groaning guts, geologists have revealed that Earth’s core could be coated in a thick layer of metallic dust; a scene dismissed…
It’s that time of year when people make their New Year’s resolutions – indeed, 93 percent of people set them, according to the American Psychological Association. The most common resolutions…
From finding the building blocks for life on Mars to breakthroughs in gene editing and the rise of artificial intelligence, here are six major scientific discoveries that shaped the 2010s…
A slice of the world’s oldest fossilised forest has been found cemented into the ground at an abandoned quarry in Cairo, New York. Discovered by chance in 2009, these extremely…
The English word “love” can be translated as “sevgi” in Turkish and “szerelem” in Hungarian – but does the concept carry the same meaning for speakers of all three tongues?…
Astronomers are keeping a close eye on what they say could be the most violent collision of galaxies ever observed, with two groups of galaxies currently coursing towards each other…
Progress MS-12 was the spacecraft used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) on July 31, 2019. Originally planned for a year earlier, the craft delivered 1164kg of…
The 83-year-old became head of the Catholic Church in 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI – a controversial move and the first of its kind in more than…
The future had arrived. There was only one problem: it was deafening. In the 1960s, the development of supersonic passenger aircraft promised to revolutionise the concept of international travel, teasing…
When it comes to numbers, some things are innate, like our ability to judge how many items we see. This ability is present even in newborn babies, who can tell…
Chimpanzees in West Africa have a song, and it goes like this – hoot loudly, and then throw a rock at a tree. Maybe twice. And then saunter away. Whatever…
In the early 1930s, Dutch anthropologists found a giant bed of bones hidden above the banks of the Solo river on the Indonesian island of Java. More than 25,000 fossil…
In March, Chinese researchers predicted that the nation’s HL-2M tokamak – a device designed to replicate nuclear fusion, the same reaction that powers the Sun – would be built before…
Europe’s CHEOPS planet-hunting space telescope left Earth on Wednesday and moved into orbit, a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. The…
The SpaceX video appears to show an unidentified object streak past a Falcon 9 rocket at the exact moment satellite JCSAT-18/Kacific1 is released into space. Self-proclaimed ET expert Scott Waring…
A unique material that appears to decouple an object’s temperature from the amount of thermal radiation it produces could provide a new way of hiding from infrared cameras (not to…
We don’t know their names, but two people who lived and died in Bronze Age Greece 3,500 years ago were obviously hugely important to the people around them. Archaeologists have…