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A new study has revealed why red supergiant stars appear to dance around in the space.

Observations across a vast range of scales are much better explained in an alternative theory of gravity requiring no invisible matter.

As Australia's space program begins to take off, parabolic flights like these will be in high demand.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online.

We know that the Earth has had at least five major ice ages. Could humans survive one?

Landsat satellites have been pinpointing risks of extreme heat within cities.

We should be intrigued, but not too excited (yet). Any interesting signal has to go through a lot of tests to check whether it truly carries the signature of extraterrestrial technology.

Researchers have found a new way to detect some of the most cataclysmic mergers in the universe before they happen.

The Gaia star-mapping mission gives us brand new information about star formation and moons around asteroids, as well as secrets about the Milky Way's origins and possible future.

This fast radio burst comes from a faraway galaxy and shows some unique properties

According Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the speed of light operates as a universal speed limit on anything with mass.

"Comet," "star" and "planet" are category names that immediately tell you something important about what they describe.

More than 50 years since astronomers first proposed "dark matter," we have no idea what it is and nobody has directly seen it or produced it in the lab.

Ukrainian rocket company Promin Aerospace, which is currently developing an ultralight, autophagic launch vehicle, has conducted a new series of studies on its unique engine.

The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems.

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere.

What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn's moon Titan?

Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as part of the ExoMars mission, a collaboration between Europe and Russia.