Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

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This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

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The US and China both want to be the first to launch a powerful AI data center beyond Earth, but the latter has seemingly ...

After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Over the holidays, a team of researchers, including one from Minnesota, is hard at work in Antarctica. The scientists are ...

From Earth’s oldest rocks to glowing swamp lights and hidden ocean life, scientists in 2025 uncovered clues beneath our feet ...