Dragonfly rotorcraft given green light for mission to Titan

NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered v rotorcraft to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns.

3D-printed "metamaterial" is stronger than anything in nature

Australian scientists used an advanced 3D printing technique to create a super strong, super lightweight new "metamaterial".

SpaceX's most-flown reusable rocket launches for the 20th time

Remarkably, SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket almost every day over the last week.

Young cold traps of the asteroid Ceres

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters near its poles. 

Science Confirms Hugs Can Ease Pain, Anxiety, And Depression

Hugs and other forms of physical touch can help with physical and mental health in people of all ages, according to a new review of 212 previous studies.

Pluto got its "heart" in a violent collision 

The experts attribute the formation of the unique heart-shaped terrain to a colossal oblique-angle collision with a celestial body approximately 700 kilometers in diameter – roughly twice the size of Switzerland from east to west.

How Tardigrades Can Survive Intense Radiation

Tardigrades dramatically increase expression of certain DNA repair transcripts in response to ionizing radiation.

Astronomers find the biggest stellar black hole in our galaxy and it's close to earth

The largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy has been found by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. And it is extraordinarily close to Earth.

Trillions of tonnes of carbon has been left out of environmental models

Acoording to a new study, there is much more soil inorganic carbon than anybody realised – and that it may be a surprisingly big player in Earth’s carbon cycle.

A single atom layer of gold - researchers create goldene

For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. 

First Fractal Molecule in Nature

From the spiral arms of galaxies to microscopic snow crystals, nature seems to fall into fractal-like patterns that repeat in increasingly smaller increments.

New Material Gets Tougher When You Hit It

Electronic wearables and sensors could one day be made from a material that toughens up as it gets hit or stretched, thanks to new research carried out by a team from the University of California, U.S

Mysterious Stars at The Heart of The Milky Way Hide a Dark Secret

A study of the stars crashing around in the Milky Way's galactic center suggests that they are much, much older than they appear – and that their youthful good looks are the result of cosmic cannibalism.

Climate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites

For every tenth of a degree of increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites disappear from the surface of the ice sheet.