Old rocket parts and decommissioned satellites are whizzing around in low Earth orbit, where they risk colliding with the ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

A recent study introduces the idea of Planet Y, a theoretical world that could explain strange gravitational behavior beyond ...

Colleges are being told to professionalise – and some argue that means paying their chairs, just as the NHS and housing ...

Geomagnetic storms could cause devastating global internet outages, costing the US economy $7.2 billion a day.

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When China wakes, she will shake the world . hellip; Napoleon Bonaparte That famous prophecy, uttered centuries ago, has ...