After eight years of travel, the BepiColombo spacecraft is finally about to reach Mercury. On 3 September 2026, the mission will begin one of the most difficult arrival sequences ESA has ever attempted. The first step...
A humble succulent that once barely registered on the economic map is now drawing serious money in South Africa. The spekboom, a drought-resistant...
Europe's latest weather satellite, MTG-I2, blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday evening, completing a three-satellite system that will soon...
A sudden collapse of glacier and rock near the Nepal-China border unleashed a wall of water that devastated downstream communities. Scientists now...
Flash floods tore through Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 27, 2026, leaving earthmovers to clear debris where homes and roads once stood. The...
Humanoid robots are getting better at walking, balancing and reacting, but they still stumble in ways that make their limits impossible to ignore...
A routine mammogram, already a standard tool for breast cancer screening, may also hold clues about a woman's heart health. New research suggests...
An artificial intelligence system has cracked a problem that stumped human engineers for years: how to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy using far less...
The world's highest mountain range is melting, and two countries have built an alarm system to warn of the danger. China and Nepal have installed a...
A newly discovered 324-million-year-old fossil suggests insects did not conquer land in a single dramatic leap, but instead spent millions of years...
Scientists may have finally caught empty space altering light, a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago. Observations of a...
After eight years of travel, the BepiColombo spacecraft is finally about to reach Mercury. On 3 September 2026, the mission will begin one of the...
A single glacial collapse near the Nepal-China border unleashed floods that killed more than 165 people, turning a remote Himalayan region into a...
The European Space Agency has signed the first contracts of its European Launcher Challenge, a program designed to expand the continent's rocket...
The cold, clear water of a British river or lake may look inviting, but a new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that wild swimming...
