Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

Call of Duty 2025 Zombies mode takes you through the irradiated ruins of a Nazi-nuked New York, fighting off the undead in ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

The vernal equinox heralds the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere (finally). But have you heard the myth about balancing an egg on its end?

Two stranded astronauts will not be able to walk when they return to Earth next week, having been stuck in space for nine ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...