Our sense of smell appears to be exceptionally good – and quick – at warning us of danger, a new study has revealed.
Mysterious structures in the sky that have puzzled astronomers for decades might finally have an explanation – and it's quite...
It's clear that a nuclear war would be catastrophic for us and our planet – but just how catastrophic? A new study models the...
A source of powerful radio signals from distant space has deepened the mystery of fast radio bursts.
As a species we haven't been exploring space for very long, and scientists are only just beginning to understand the potential...
Scientists are getting closer to being able to spot Hawking radiation – that elusive thermal radiation thought to be produced...
We now know, to within a tenth of a percent, how long a neutron can survive outside the atomic nucleus before decaying into a...
Galaxies are a bit like fingerprints, or snowflakes. There are many of them out there, and they can have a lot of characteristics...
If there's one thing our Solar System doesn't have in short supply, it's rocks.
When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of...