A device has enabled people to see a new a shade of blue-green, which they say is more intense than any experienced before ...

A quantum sensor using Earth's magnetic fields outperformed standard GPS backups in test flights. This technology could help ...

Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited ...

A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

The "skyglow" produced when light from cities bounces off clouds can help cyanobacteria and other aquatic microbes grow at ...

Water filters made from untreated wood can remove more than 99 per cent of particles, taking out many harmful bacteria and ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

The report of possible biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b is exciting, but we are a long way from establishing beyond ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

New global rules will see a carbon levy applied to emissions from shipping for the first time, but analysts say the package ...

As quantum computers mature, they will be transformational. But there are good reasons why we don’t yet know exactly which ...