Science

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered two new Earth-like planets near one of our

The Sun is why we’re here. It’s also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun was just a

Scientists in Japan have developed a way of amplifying DNA on a scale suitable for use in the emerging fields

Portus Romae was established in the middle of the first century AD and for well over 400 years was Rome’s

When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, they light up the cosmos with bright, explosive bursts

Over the past four years, an instrument attached to a telescope in the Chilean Andes – known as the Gemini

Cannabis has been cultivated as an oil-seed and fibre crop for millennia in East Asia. Little is known, however, about

A massive ‘hit-and-run’ collision profoundly impacted the evolutionary history of Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. This finding, by

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using