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Earth's poles shifted surprisingly fast during the age of dinosaurs, ancient sea levels reveal
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth, captured here by the Artemis II mission, episodically sees its geographical poles wander.
Council housebuilding plan thrown into disarray by Right to Buy surge
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Council housebuilding plan thrown into disarray by Right to Buy surge
Andy Burnham's promise of the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period will be undermined for years by an extended surge in Right to Buy sales, as councils struggle with a backlog of applications. Tens of thousands of tenants applied to buy their council homes after the discounts on offer under the scheme were cut in 2024, fuelling a 90 per cent jump in sales last year to 14,275.
A hidden asteroid crater under Oklahoma could be connected to one of Earth's major mass extinctions
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A hidden asteroid crater under Oklahoma could be connected to one of Earth's major mass extinctions
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of an asteroid heading towards Earth. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images An ancient crater buried underneath the Oklahoma town of Ames has been discovered to be almost 100 million years younger than thought, consequently connecting it to one of the big five mass extinction events in Earth's history.
Newfound 'fire amoeba' could broaden the search for alien life to planets hotter than Earth
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Screenshot from a video showing the amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis moving at 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit). When pushed to its limits in the lab, I. cascadensis can remain partially active at 150.8 degrees F (66 degrees C) and can recover from exposure to 158 degrees F (70 degrees C) for five minutes.
Space weather caused a 16-minute train delay in 1848: 'Our research has a hint of a detective story'
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exeter in 1844-1850. W. Hake's painting shows the opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway as seen from Exwick Hill. | Credit: W.
Making rocket fuel out of Mars' thin air: New breakthrough could make it happen
Astronauts could travel back to Earth from Mars using rocket fuel converted directly from the carbon dioxide in the Red Planet's atmosphere, using a technique known as electrochemical reduction, a recent study reports. It's an old method involving electrolysis, which is the application of an electrical current to drive a chemical reaction, but the new trick produces methane pure enough to be used as liquid propellant.
New breakthrough could make it happen
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Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects unlike any they have seen before
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Earth's moon could have formed in just 5 hours after giant impact
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth sets at 5:41 p.m. CDT, April 6, 2026, over the moon's curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the moon. | Credit: NASA The moon could have formed in a matter of hours following the giant impact between Earth and a Mars-size protoplanet early in the history of the solar system.
Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
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Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of a centaur gradually transitioning into a comet with a coma and tail. | Credit: iStock Astronomers have witnessed a small, icy body that orbits the sun out beyond Jupiter transforming into a comet, providing a missing link between comets and inert bodies called centaurs.
The moon might be hiding a history of ancient supernova explosions
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The moon might be hiding a history of ancient supernova explosions
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA astronuat Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt conducts geological field research on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 (left); and the Crab Nebula supernova remnant (right). | Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Dubner (IAFE, CONICET-University of Buenos Aires) et al/A. Loll et al/T. Temim et al/F.
Scientists discover massive 'thermal anomaly' beneath the surface of Mars
New research into the interior of Mars further emphasizes that the Red Planet is a world of two very different halves.
Scientists discover massive 'thermal anomaly' beneath the surface of Mars
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Scientists discover massive 'thermal anomaly' beneath the surface of Mars
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A cross-section of Mars, showing the hotter interior of the southern hemisphere. | Credit: NASA/Theophilus Britt Griswold New research into the interior of Mars further emphasizes that the Red Planet is a world of two very different halves.
It's been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Is Pluto really a planet?. | Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI In August of 2006, astronomers at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) democratically voted to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet — but 20 years later, with our greater knowledge and understanding of planetary systems, is it time to revisit the controversial decision? Should Pluto be called a planet again?
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A coronal mass injection (CME) on the sun. . | Credit: ESA/NASA/Soho A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth has been tracked by a record 17 spacecraft spread throughout the solar system, revealing the CME to be surprisingly lopsided.
‘Little red dots’ could herald the birth of supermassive black holes
Black hole star An extremely bright red spot in the early universe could be a supermassive black hole within a cocoon of dense gas, as imagined in this artist’s impression. (Courtesy: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT) Newborn and rapidly growing supermassive black holes could be powering the mysterious “little red dots” that litter the early universe.
SEND pupils more likely to be shut in isolation, disturbing data reveals
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How an ancient collision with another galaxy transformed the Milky Way
A bunch of white, blue and brownish swirls against a dot-speckled section of space. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered evidence that our galaxy experienced a significant collision and merger with a dwarf galaxy 11.8 billion years ago. Mergers between galaxies are one of the main ways in which galaxies can grow. However, while we can witness mergers taking place in other galaxies, figuring out our Milky Way galaxy's history requires painstaking detective work.
Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's future: 'Broken apart and returned to the galaxy'
A blue circle surrounded by pink and yellow rings. There is a reddish structure all around this. Astronomers have watched a dead star, in the guise of the Helix Nebula, being recycled back into the interstellar gas from which it originally came, bringing the story of that star full circle. Stars can last for millions, or even billions, of years, but they do not last forever. When a sun-like star reaches the end, it blossoms into a beautiful planetary nebula.
How an ancient collision with another galaxy transformed the Milky Way
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the LKH dwarf galaxy (left) merging with the young Milky Way, which had not yet adopted a spiral shape 11.8 billion years ago. | Credit: NASA/ESA/Joseph Olmsted (STScI) The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered evidence that our galaxy experienced a significant collision and merger with a dwarf galaxy 11.8 billion years ago.
Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's future: 'Broken apart and returned to the galaxy'
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University) and M. Meixner, P. McCullough and G. Bacon (Space Telescope Science Institute)/Andrew McCarthy. Astronomers have watched a dead star, in the guise of the Helix Nebula, being recycled back into the interstellar gas from which it originally came, bringing the story of that star full circle.
Scientists find 3 supermassive black holes on the verge of collision inside a distant galaxy
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The distant galaxy J0148-4214, seen in the light of ionized hydrogen. The image appears pixelated because of the great distance to the galaxy. The black circles denote the relative locations of the three black holes. . | Credit: Hannah Übler More A trio of heavyweight black holes are entangled in a dance of death that will quite possibly see them gradually all merge to form an even greater behemoth.
A 'river' of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent planets in the Orion constellation into tilted orbits
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist's representation highlights the streamer feeding material onto the protoplanetary disk, GW Ori, creating misaligned dust rings. | Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/B.Saxton A rare planet-forming disk around a young triple-star system in the Orion constellation has been tipped over by a river of gas over 1 trillion miles (1.6 trillion kilometers) long.
Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help solve the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dot mystery
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. A cloud of hot plasma above the black hole is known as a corona. The most distant 'black hole star' yet found, existing in the universe less than 660 million years after the Big Bang, has provided a vital clue as to the origin of the mysterious "little red dots" that populate the James Webb Space Telescope's images of the early universe.
Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help solve the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dot mystery
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's illustration of a disk of hot gas around a black hole. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most distant 'black hole star' yet found, existing in the universe less than 660 million years after the Big Bang, has provided a vital clue as to the origin of the mysterious "little red dots" that populate the James Webb Space Telescope's images of the early universe.
Pluto's atmosphere is collapsing as it drifts away from the sun into a deep freeze
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Pluto's atmosphere as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2016. | Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto's atmosphere appears to be freezing out as the dwarf planet moves ever further away from the sun, according to careful observations of Pluto astronomers made as it was seen passing in front of stars in the sky. Pluto is already cold.
Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dots — and how they might be evolving
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Little red objects found by the James Webb Space Telescope. The "z" values correspond to redshifts of the dots, or where they're located in the universe.
Are aliens running out of places to hide? It turns out we've searched much more of the galaxy than we realized
A dozen large round radio antenna dishes point upwards into a starry night sky. When people grow impatient at the lack of success in the search for alien life, researchers often point to how few of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars or so have been searched so far. But it may be that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has surveyed more stars than astronomers had realized.
Are aliens running out of places to hide? It turns out we've searched much more of the galaxy than we realized
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile. | Credit: ESO/C. Malin When people grow impatient at the lack of success in the search for alien life, researchers often point to how few of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars or so have been searched so far.
1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system — and it has a little moon
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An adaptive optics image of the asteroid 44 Nysa taken with the Large Binocular Telescope. The moon is arrowed. | Credit: Kate Minker et al. Scientists have found the first triple-lobed asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — and it has a small moon to boot. The asteroid in question is 44 Nysa, which was discovered all the way back in 1857.
Bringing physics down to Earth through rocket science
Keith Cooper reviews It’s (Just) Rocket Science: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions by Trisha Muro This is rocket science Ariane 6 flight VA269 set off on 17 June 2026 from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. Ariane 6 is Europe’s heavy-lift launcher, used to launch all types of missions, from low-Earth orbit to deep space. (Courtesy: ESA/S Corvaja) Science is often easier to learn and understand when its abstract ideas are presented through the lens of our everyday world.
Our Milky Way galaxy appears to have flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why?
An image of the Milky Way with a bunch of yellow arrows going toward and through it. The Milky Way's spiral disk may have flipped over by 90 degrees, in turn altering the solar system's orbit around the center of the galaxy. Spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way have two main, visible, structural components: a disk that encapsulates most of its stars, gas and the central black hole, and a more diffuse halo of older stars that encapsulates the disk.
Our Milky Way galaxy appears to have flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the collision between the Milky Way and the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus dwarf galaxy. The arrows indicate the motion of stars from the dwarf.
Are we overlooking signs of alien life that aren't technological or biological? 'Bread would be a signature of intelligence'
Lines and circles carved into a rock, seen under a starry night sky. The search for alien life has tended to focus on looking for either signs of extraterrestrial technology or evidence of biological processes on other worlds. But new and ongoing research suggests that scientists should start considering signs of intelligence that are not necessarily technological, but which are sufficiently complex as to be evidence of a conscious mind at work.
Failing quango Homes England causing hidden council house crisis, Burnham told
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Failing quango Homes England causing a hidden council house crisis, Burnham told
Standing outside Downing Street, hours after visiting a homeless shelter, Andy Burnham kickstarted his premiership with an impassioned pledge to end rough sleeping and launch “the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period.” It is the promise that could come to define his time in Downing Street. But some of the evidence suggests it could fail – or worse, backfire.
Failing quango Homes England causing a hidden council house crisis, Burnham told
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Discovery of giant ‘exosatellite’ challenges our notion of what makes a moon
Three-tiered system Artist’s impression of the three bodies in the CD-35 2722 system, showing the star (left) orbited by a brown dwarf (right), which is itself orbited by the newly discovered “exosatellite” (centre). (Courtesy: ESO/M Kornmesser) A possible “exosatellite” has been discovered 73 light years away. Bizarrely, it is roughly the size of Jupiter and orbiting a failed star called a brown dwarf, which in turn is orbiting the red dwarf star CD-35 2722.
Discovery of giant ‘exosatellite’ challenges our notion of what makes a moon
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Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren't so sure
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Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren't so sure
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the Habitable Worlds Observatory that will search spectroscopically for biosignatures on exoplanets. . | Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.
Astronomers discover landslides on Pluto large enough to bury entire cities on Earth
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The 1st of 10,000 'missing' black holes in the Omega Centauri star cluster has been found by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes
A dense field of stars on a black background. The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks to teamwork by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. The two observatories discovered the black hole after watching a star orbiting around something massive but dark, and which therefore could not be seen. The Hubble data ran from 2003 to 2023, and the James Webb Space Telescope picked up after that to help refine the measurements.
1st-ever X-rays in space offer hope for possible patients headed to the moon
Three side by side X-rays of a hand. A miniature X-ray machine is set to transform astronauts' health prospects following a successful test in orbit. As a bonus, as well as checking for broken bones on the moon, the technology could also be distributed to small towns and villages in rural areas to provide enhanced medical care far from major hospitals. For much of the Space Age, astronauts have only had access to ultrasound machines as tools to diagnose injuries.
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans
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