Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could be spotted with the naked eye in the UK on Saturday night. Source link

NASA/ISSHurricanes Helene and Milton – which have devastated parts of the south-east United States – have bookended an exceptionally busy period of tropical storms.In less than two weeks, five...

Getty ImagesElon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built.It’s also designed to be fully...

The winner of Fat Bear Week has finally been crowned - and she's no stranger to the title. Voters chose 128 Grazer, a mother bear who won Fat Bear...

Getty ImagesThe announcement was made in Stockholm, SwedenThe Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists, Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, for their work on machine learning.British-Canadian...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022.The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at...

MRC/NatureAs beautiful as it is complex, the fly's brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connectionsThey can walk, hover and the males can even sing love...

A telescope in Hawaii captured a rare comet as it passes near Earth. The footage was captured on 2 October by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru-Asahi Star...

Met OfficeThe very strong solar flare came from a region near the Sun's south-centre discA huge solar flare, the largest since 2017, has been spotted erupting from the Sun’s...

Getty ImagesThe huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed.A second, smaller space rock smashed into the...

PA MediaThe UK's last coal plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station near Nottingham, ends operations on MondayThe UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal - ending its...

A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and...