SCIENCE

A bold proposal would send a spacecraft plunging close to the sun to slingshot after interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, an engineering gamble measured in decades.

Carl Grillmair, a renowned Caltech scientist who discovered water on a distant planet, was fatally shot at his Los Angeles-area home. Authorities arrested a suspect in connection with the killing.

Scientists confirm meteorites contain all five DNA bases, indicating life's building blocks may have formed in space. Discover what this means for the origins of life.

NASA officials warn that around 15,000 'city-killer' asteroids remain undiscovered, many lurking in a stubborn observational blind spot near the sun.

The 'Lovers' Arch', a natural rock formation along Italy's Adriatic coast, collapsed on Valentine's Day, impacting regional tourism.

A city-sized green comet, C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), is approaching Earth and will soon be ejected into interstellar space, offering astronomers a rare chance to study a hyperbolic visitor from the Oort cloud.

Barack Obama's playful alien joke on a podcast raises questions about what US presidents know about UFOs and government secrecy.

NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed lunar journey in 50 years, has been delayed from February to March due to a recurring liquid hydrogen leak during pre-launch rehearsals.

Elon Musk claims SpaceX will build a system allowing anyone to travel to the Moon, revealing an ambitious timeline for lunar missions.

Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' trailer teases alien contact and revives interest in 'sine wave language' theories spreading online.

Stolen Soviet files released by George Knapp reveal a massive cover-up of UFO encounters, giant aliens, and abductions concealed behind the Iron Curtain for decades.

Read about the fascinating world of the Psyche asteroid, a metal-rich celestial body worth $10 quintillion.

Learn more about NASA astronaut Victor Glover on the historic Artemis II mission, the first human journey around the Moon since 1972.

Exploring the surge in demand for gas-fired power driven by data centres in the US, reshaping energy policies and impacting emissions.

Elon Musk tells the World Economic Forum he is an alien while casting doubt on extraterrestrial life. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink interviews tech billionaire.

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb identifies 18 anomalies of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, raising questions about whether it could harbour alien AI.

NASA's James Webb Telescope caught new images of the Helix Nebula that sheds light on how stars recycle their material back to the cosmos.

A powerful geomagnetic storm caused by an X-class solar flare and a fast-moving coronal mass ejection has disrupted Earth's magnetic field, pushing auroras far beyond their usual polar range. As scientists monitor impacts, the event highlights how solar storms, flares and CMEs affect both the night sky and modern technology.

A former analyst for the Bank of England wrote to the national bank's current management warning them of a possible financial crisis brought by aliens

3I/ATLAS survived the Sun but transformed into a volatile comet-like body, spewing cyanide, CO₂, and organics in pear-shaped plumes, defying standard models with chaotic jets and deadly emissions.

Four astronauts evacuated from ISS after serious medical emergency in historic first. Crew-11 returns to Earth one month early following unprecedented health crisis.

Japanese scientists genetically modified mice to have light-emitting sperm to monitor fertility inside their bodies in a non-invasive manner.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited SpaceX days after $739M contract, announcing Grok AI deployment at Pentagon alongside Google's Gemini this month.

Astronomers investigating 3I/ATLAS suggest its unique trajectory allows interstellar observers to detect Earth's industrial pollutants through planetary transits, raising questions about potential tracking of our waste.

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska museum fossils.

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd place might have formed.

Startup space tech company LandSpace wants to become the 'Space X of China' even despite their maiden flight test's failure.

Russia plans to establish a nuclear power plant on the moon in a decade to support its lunar exploration and create a joint research station with China.