Everything you see around you is made up of elementary particles called quarks and leptons, which can combine to form bigger particles such as protons or atoms.

The International Space Station (ISS) is about to place a call. But not just any old ISS call. It's going to be via X-rays: the first test of NASA's newly developed X-ray communication system, called XCOM.

The design for SpaceX's Starship (aka. Big Falcon Rocket) is really starting to come together!

Today our middle-aged Universe looks eerily smooth. Too smooth, in fact. 

The European Southern Observatory has just revealed there will be a huge announcement next week. Yes, we know how that sounds - but as far as we can tell, it appears the world is about to finally see the first ever photo of a black hole's event hor

Remember that time astronomers discovered a galaxy with no dark matter? Well, they're back. They've found a second one, and it actually bolsters the case for dark matter's existence.

We just got some massive news in the ongoing drive to switch to renewable energy: scientists have identified 530,000 sites worldwide suitable for pumped-hydro energy storage, capable of storing more than enough energy to power the entire planet.

The head of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, is not happy with how other world leaders are treating space.

We still don't know what dark matter is, but we can strike a line through one option. It is not, as per a theory proposed by the brilliant Stephen Hawking, a bunch of teeny-tiny microscopic black holes.

President Donald Trump of the United States of America has made quite the claim. At the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner earlier this week, he took a tilt at 'windmills'.

What once seemed like the moonshot vision of tech billionaires and idealistic architects could soon become a concrete solution to several of the world's most pressing challenges.

On 10 April 2019 at 15:00 CEST (Brussels time) the European Commission presented a ground-breaking discovery by Event Horizon Telescope - an international scientific collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth…

Folks, you're looking at history. Astronomers have just released the very first direct image, ever, of the event horizon of a black hole.