NASA wants to set fire to the moon – no, really. If conducted, the experiment would be the first time humanity has set fire ...

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

By Rachel Feltman The Library of Congress has more than 170 million items, and they’re definitely not all books. And no, I’m ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new ...

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly ...

AS WE SETTLE INTO SUMMER HAVE YOUR KIDS SETTLED INTO THE COUCH – SETTLED INTO THEIR XBOX AND SETTLED INTO THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA? TIME TO GET THEM OUTSIDE AND NO WE DO NOT MEAN A DIFFICULT TRIP TO THE ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

(via SciShow) The International Space Station has been home to humans for over 25 years. And over the decades, those humans have helped scientists on the ground run a bunch of nifty science ...

BLAST LAB, a science show designed to captivate kids and science-loving adults will be playing in Townsville two nights only this weekend and next at Riverway. See details. Audiences may recognise ...