In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft out to lunar distances (though not around the Moon) even if navigation system ...

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87. The image was only possible thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, and follow ...

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

2025 is set to be an especially busy spider season for some parts of the world, according to some experts. In the UK, this ...

In the waters off Washington State, a mother orca has been seen pushing her dead newborn calf, seemingly in mourning. It isn’t the first time this grieving behavior has been documented in this killer ...

W hen matter and antimatter collide, they turn into pure energy. Energy can also spontaneously turn into matter and antimatter pairs. If this happens in a vacuum under a strong electric field, this is ...

Similarly, cats hiss by pushing air out of a restricted airway (much the same way humans do when mimicking a hiss), and geese ...

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made ...

B ack in 2019, researchers observed a collision between two black holes of wildly different masses. New analysis has revealed that the collision produced a massive recoil, sending the newly formed ...

The smell has been described as a mix of rotten eggs, pungent cheese, ammonia, week-old armpit, and putrid fish.

This hasn't always been the case. If we take the current rate of recession and project it backwards, the Moon collides with ...

All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,” NASA's Jamie Jasinski said. "The Sun is slowly waking up." ...