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Rocket company Blue Origin is looking to add “defender of Earth” to its repertoire, developing a new mission concept to deflect asteroids before they smash into our planet.

Jeff Bezos’ space venture recently unveiled its…

Researchers have discovered 120,000-year-old human footprints in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. Preserved in an ancient lake bed, the tracks were left by a small group of Homo sapiens. These traces reveal surprising details about their…

Sharks off the coast of the Bahamas are getting into drugs like cocaine, caffeine and painkillers — or rather, drugs are getting into them. The contaminated blood of species including nurse sharks and Caribbean reef sharks reveals the…

For a long time, Gaia20ehk looked like the kind of star no one would linger on. It sat about 11,000 light-years away near the constellation Puppis, shining with the steady, predictable light expected from an ordinary main-sequence star….

You’re late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realise your phone is flat.

Imagine you could charge it almost instantly by exploiting the strange rules of quantum physics. That’s the promise of quantum…

What if I told you that our very own Earth holds a secret, a cosmic clue to understanding one of the most enigmatic worlds in our solar system? It sounds wild, I know. But imagine a place far, far away, shrouded in a thick, nitrogen-rich haze,…

We love working out to the music blasting through our earbuds, and we are far from alone. Walk into any gym, and you can bet half of the people there will be lost in their own little audio world. Look around outside, and you will see that most…

The bright stars and constellations that dominate the night sky around the turn of the year are much-loved, from Orion and its spectacular M42 nebula, super-bright Sirius and the Pleiades open cluster. However, all of these jewels exist in the…

A newly discovered planet orbiting the nearby star GJ 887 is being hailed as one of the most promising candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. This super-Earth, with a mass over six times that of our own planet, lies within its…

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An “explosive” and “unprecedented” outbreak of meningitis has hit a…