UCT’s Prof Kelly Chibale pulled all the strings to promote drug discovery in Africa when he addressed the 66th London ...

Scientists can now predict Mars' green auroras - glowing signs of solar storms - which could protect future astronauts on the ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

Earth has a new quasi-moon, which is called 2025 PN7. A new paper has revealed that it has been orbiting near our planet ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

Watch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.

How billionaire Wendy Schmidt became a crucial funder of science and climate research amid political rollbacks—backing ocean discovery, data access, and storytelling.

In redistricting lingo, it’s called “packing and cracking.” Those maneuvers are at the heart of Trump’s push for friendlier GOP districts as he tries to avoid reprising 2018, when midterms yielded a ...