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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...

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

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day ...