Science

US President Donald Trump recently re-allocated funds away from certain NASA projects and toward Elon Musk’s mission to Mars research, after the billionaire made a dire doomsday prediction.

Scientists now believe they know when and where the virus first emerged. 

Experts have warned residents to stay away from the water at popular beaches after scores of dead marine life washed up on the shore.

Five years into its mission, the Solar Orbiter has delivered a spectacular ultraviolet view of the Sun’s million-degree atmosphere.

Whether it’s Espresso, Satisfaction or Baby Shark, boffins have now worked out how earworms get into your brain - and how to get them out.

A group of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope claim to have discovered the strongest signs ever recorded of life on an alien planet. 

The all-women Blue Origin rocket launch, including passengers Gayle King and Katy Perry, briefly entered space overnight. What does that mean for the rest of us?

Katy Perry and her fellow female crew members have shown off their ‘glam’ spacesuits ahead of their journey into the stars on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin craft, saying ‘we’re going to put the “ass” in astronaut’.

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble the extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the US.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Hoping to avoid death? So are scientists who are making progress on slowing down the ageing process.

After an incredible 286 consecutive days in space, the mental toll on NASA’s astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore may be more serious than their smiles and thumbs-up signals indicated.   

The big-name tech billionaires have established themselves as a global ruling class but how are they using their combined trillion-dollar wealth to carve out a better future for the planet?

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon’s south pole - or lying sideways like its first spacecraft from a year ago.

NASA’s Blue Ghost lander has taken viewers back to the wonder of the 1970s as it captured a spectacular close-up of the dark side of the Moon.

A major IVF provider has informed patients a cyber attack may have compromised their personal information, including medical records and treatments.