Astronomy

Germany's Isar and RFA, France's Maiaspace, Spain's PLD Space, and UK-based Orbex have been pre-selected for ESA's €169 million launcher initiative.

Acknowledging the limits of one’s own knowledge could be as important a signal of expertise as credentials and confidence

"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."

The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans, which could be a problem for both future AI and historians

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to study human health in space.

A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – they may be capturing dark matter for extra fuel

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore

This episode of Science Quickly goes on an archival adventure in Scientific American’s July 1925 issue.

 

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.

What is going on with this galaxy?