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When 'Oumuamua first came to the notice of astronomers, zooming into the Solar System from very, very far away, it was assumed that the object was a comet.

In 2025 NASA will either launch a probe to bring back samples from comet 67P, previously visited by Rosetta, or send a drone-like craft to Saturn's moon Titan

Some wonder-materials you hear from once, and that's it. But not graphene. A month barely goes by these days without us hearing about a new use for this amazing carbon allotrope.

It's been an excellent year for science - we had an absolutely stellar neutron star merger announcement, found the elusive time crystals, finally achieved counterfactual quantum communication, and much, much more.

A "snowbaby" is a term used to describe an embryo that is frozen in storage and preserved for potential future birth. In November 2017, the longest frozen embryo ever held in storage was successfully born in Tennessee.

Back in April 12 proposals were submitted for the New Frontiers programme. Some of the proposals included missions to Venus and Enceladus, a probe for Saturn’s atmosphere and a sample collect…

Cloud formation depends on a number of factors, including atmospheric temperature and the amount of water vapour in the air, but we might be able to add another influence to the mix: cosmic rays beaming down through space.

Scientists have established a method of growing hydrogel in a manner similar to the organic growth of plant or animal tissue. Robots are among the uses.

"That's a record."

In the academic world, citations matter. But thanks to the internet, the public is increasingly engaging with science too, and that doesn't just mean reading science news, but actually looking at published research as well.

While we all take for granted the fact that time's arrow forever points towards the future, physicists have always had trouble showing why this is necessarily the case.

Brain researchers have pinpointed a small group of brain cells that are especially responsive to nicotine, and which might be the main culprits in driving addiction to the substance.

The predecessor that outsmarted humans is already obsolete.

It's well established that nuclear fusion - the reaction that powers our Sun - could be the key to unlocking clean, limitless energy here on Earth.

New research has identified a mechanism in the body that appears to act as a kind of internal bathroom scale, registering body weight and telling the brain to reduce or increase food intake as necessary.

Russia has conceded that a high-profile space failure in November last year occurred because scientists programmed a rocket carrying a US$45 million weather satellite with the wrong coordinates.