We know that there are multitudes of exoplanets scattered throughout the universe, but to date the only planets that …

Mary Beth Griggs at 11:37 AM Oct 12 2016

Earth is very much powered by the sun. Beams of photons shoot down at us, dumping their energy into green plants. …

Sarah Fecht at 10:08 AM Oct 10 2016

Did we just get neuralyzed? For a few precious days this week, the scientific community vacillated between enthralled…

Samantha Cole at 12:06 PM Sep 1 2016

The Universe’s earliest days just got a tiny bit closer, as scientists observing the

Is someone trying to phone home? Astronomers at the SETI institute have detected “a strong signal” in the direction …

Samantha Cole at 09:51 AM Aug 30 2016

Black holes are light prisons, dense regions of space with such powerful gravity that light can’t escape their pull. …

Ryan F. Mandelbaum at 10:34 AM Aug 10 2016

After three years of searching for invisible dark matter inside a mile-deep hole in South Dakota, scientists emerged …

Samantha Cole at 09:34 AM Jul 26 2016
 
1 2 3 4 512
Sign up for the Pop Sci newsletter
Australian Popular Science
ON SALE 25 OCTOBER
PopSci Live