When astronomers observe distant exoplanets, they sometimes encounter a frustrating result: instead of revealing the chemical fingerprints of an atmosphere, the data appear almost completely flat.

Andrea Ghez developed a way to peer through dust clouds and observe stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Fourteen years ago Dr Matthew Watson, a burly, bearded volcanologist at the University of Bristol, was leading a project that ...

Scientists say 2,000 ships spraying seawater over the Pacific could weaken a super El Nino before it peaks. Here is what the new study means for India's monsoon, and why researchers remain uneasy.

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In a hangar in Broomfield, Colorado, a Gulfstream V jet plane is getting last-minute checks before it heads out on a daring mission. The aeroplane is part of a NASA campaign that will, for the first ...

When a person coughs or sneezes, they expel a cloud of microscopic particles capable of carrying viruses and bacteria that act as vectors for respiratory diseases such as flu, COVID-19 or tuberculosis ...

As South Korea was drenched by heavy downpours during its annual rainy season, social media posts falsely claimed China was ...

Hair whipped horizontal by a subantarctic gale, I squint into the abyss of the Auckland Islands. It’s wet, wild and almost ...

Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect.