Russia, the US and other nations are to discuss cooperation on building a nuclear-powered spacecraft, according to the head of Roscosmos – the Russian space agency.

Tantalising evidence is emerging of a serious gap in biologists’ understanding of the diversity of life on Earth

An ‘amateur’ astronomer in Europe took this phenomenal picture of NASA astronaut Steve Bowen doing a spacewalk during Discovery’s last flight to the space station!

Amazing real animated images from the Cassini spacecraft.

One of the world’s best preserved prehistoric human brains was recently found in a waterlogged U.K. pit.

Can you distinguish molecules from atoms? Genes from genomes? Do you know what makes an experiment statistically significant? If not, do you care? Are you embarrassed by your scientific ignorance – or almost proud of it?

The origin of life may have been smelly, according to a recent, NASA-funded analysis of residue from a variant of classic experiments performed by Dr. Stanley Miller in the 1950s. The original box containing archived spark discharge samples prepared by Stanley Miller in 1958.

Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space.

WE THINK of stars, even the failed ones called brown dwarfs, as being lethally hot. That picture has been confounded by a newly discovered brown dwarf – at room temperature.