Giant coral colony discovered in Red Sea tourism hotspot
A huge colony of Pavona coral near the coast of Saudi Arabia is thought to be the largest living example found in the Red Sea
Scientists confused by missing coastal features on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon
Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.
It’s alive! It’s alive! Orion throws back its cover | Space picture of the day for April 22, 2025
NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.
Yousa in big doo-doo now, as Darth Jar Jar makes his way to Fortnite in the new Star Wars collaboration (video)
The next Fortnite x Star Wars collaboration will bring new content to Epic Games' hit online multiplayer game, including starfighters, Darth Jar Jar, and a new live event.
Jets wrapped in ‘shark skin’ material could fly further on less fuel
An aerodynamic material that mimics shark skin helps planes fly with less drag – and it can be added to existing aircraft like a decal
Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a ‘missing’ supermassive black hole? (video)
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.
NASA’s Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing ‘strikingly complicated geology’
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.
Quantum batteries could make quantum computers more efficient
Powering quantum computers with quantum batteries would reduce the energy needed for cooling and enable machines to pack in more qubits
We took a guided tour of the solar system in Elite Dangerous, and now you can too (interview)
Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.
Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?
Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of evolution itself