Saturn's largest moon runs a full hydrological cycle — clouds, storms, rivers, lakes, seas — but the rain is liquid methane and the bedrock is water ice frozen to about minus 179 Celsius, hard enough to build mountains from.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday for the 13th full-scale test flight of Starship, a mission that will carry Starlink satellites into a suborbital trajectory and…
In South Korea's 2015 census, one in five people was named Kim: 21.5 percent of the population, or 10.69 million people.
In February 1966, the Soviet Luna 9 probe bounced across the Ocean of Storms and unfolded four petal antennas — and Britain's Jodrell Bank observatory intercepted its picture signal, recognised the newspaper-fax format, and published the first photograph from the Moon's surface before Moscow could.
Four or five raw red kidney beans carry enough phytohaemagglutinin to hospitalise a healthy adult within hours. A 2018 outbreak in Brittany showed exactly what happens when the cooking temperature stays below a full boil.
Twice a month, at new and full moon, the Sun and Moon align with Earth and their tidal pulls stack together — producing spring tides that are simply solar system geometry printed on a weekly tide table.
In July 2026, a research team led by Alessio Terzi, an assistant professor at Cambridge's Bennett School of Public Policy, and Francesco Nicoli of the…
The Moon looks frozen in time, its craters preserving impacts billions of years old.
The 52-hertz signal was unusual but within baleen whales’ hearing range. Passive acoustic records cannot establish loneliness, inaudibility or the absence of replies.
In June 1989, a seventeen-year-old Elon Musk left South Africa for Canada on his own, having secured a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother.
Hubble’s first images did not look like the beginning of a new era in astronomy.
South Korea has spent close to 20 years and hundreds of trillions of won trying to get its citizens to have more children.
Around 1967, Harvard turned down a young astronomer for tenure. His name was Carl Sagan.
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Look at the veins on the back of your hand. They probably read as blue, maybe faintly green, and the anatomy poster on the classroom wall backs you up: arteries in red, veins in blue.
The corner-cube reflectors Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard and David Scott left on the Moon between 1969 and 1971 are still returning laser pulses fired from Earth — and 57 years of measurements show our nearest neighbour is receding at exactly 3.8 centimetres a year, the rate a human fingernail grows.
