In a couple of years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) could have an important decision to make. A working group just voted 29 to 4 in favour of recognising a new modern epoch, and plans to formally make its case to the ICS i

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, successfully launched its first five dozen Starlink telecommunications satellites on Thursday night.

Starlink satellites are visible from Earth, you just need to know when and where to look.

Our deepfake problem is about to get worse: Samsung engineers have now developed realistic talking heads that can be generated from a single image, so AI can even put words in the mouth of the Mona Lisa.

Humans may not be able to burp properly in space, but we can now edit a genome. For the first time, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the DNA of brewer's yeast.

Humans and our primate relatives differ in many ways, but the fact we walk on two legs is one of the most obvious. Precisely how our ancestors evolved that trait is a well-debated mystery. Now, there's a new idea. What if one of the contributing fa

It's NICER.

Small commercial landings could occur as soon as next year

A new artificial intelligence created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pulls off a staggering feat: by analyzing only a short audio clip of a person's voice, it reconstructs what they might look like in real life.

Curiosity is one busy rover. Since touching down on Mars in 2012, it's helped astronomers locate the planet's missing methane, delivered new evidence that Mars was once wet, and even provided clues of extraterrestrial life.

Imagine a simple and effective treatment for restoring the sense of smell in people who have lost it or never had it in the first place – that could one day be possible as a result of early stage research on mice, in which olfactory nerves were r

Clay is a big deal on Mars because it often forms in contact with water. Find clay, and you've usually found evidence of water. And the nature, history, and current water budget on Mars are all important to understanding that planet, and if it ever

A doomsday ending to climate change is not inevitable, but the situation is becoming ever more desperate. Without immediate and drastic action, reminiscent of efforts during World War II, a new analysis predicts that by 2050, climate change could b

New results from the Large Hadron Collider have confirmed it. The mysterious five-quark subatomic particle - the pentaquark, only discovered a few years ago - really is composed of two sets of quarks.

NASA has announced that it is opening the International Space Station up to private business, including astronauts who will pay $35,000 a night to visit

A colossal magnetic field stretching between two clusters of galaxies has been observed for the first time. Roughly a billion light-years away, the 'bridge' of radio-emitting plasma spans 10 million light-years, following a filament in the mysterio

Solar panels are fantastic pieces of technology, but we need to work out how to make them even more efficient – and scientists just solved a 40-year-old mystery around one of the key obstacles to increased efficiency.