There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural figures worldwide could be vastly underestimated. Currently, the UN ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

You might think physicists only ask the big questions. We mostly hear about the physics of the cosmic and the miniscule, the shape of our universe and the nature of the particles that fill it.

After a long nine-month stay at the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were to finally return to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. But just an ...

The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets ... We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday. From 2021 to 2023, Basant and his colleagues ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams waved as they left their capsule - nearly an hour after it returned to Earth at about 6pm local time (10pm UK time). Dolphins were seen swimming nearby while work ...

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally arrived back on Earth. Their SpaceX capsule made a fast and fiery re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere ...

a quantum physicist at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China, who led the work. Pan’s team also shrank the ground-station receiver from 13,000 kg to a portable 100 kg ...

What started as an eight-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS) became a nine-month wait for a return trip back to Earth's surface. Now astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can ...

Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore have finally returned to Earth after nine months onboard the International Space Station NASA astronauts Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch ...