It's official. At 2:23 am in southern China, a rocket carrying unique payload successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

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As someone who has clocked an unseemly amount of hours on an MMO, I'm no stranger to the guilt that can come from habitual gaming. 

Wasps are dangerous little insects. They're aggressive as heck, and being stung can be on a spectrum from incredibly painful to fatal.

About 11 billion miles from Earth, a NASA probe has broken another record for humanity.

Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep 'dark biosphere' of subterranean lifeforms that scientists are only just beginning to comprehend.

You probably don't stop to think about this often, but right after the birth of the Universe, matter was not in the form we recognise today.

The Geminids meteor shower peaks on the mornings of December 13 and 14, 2018 – but if you look up any time there's a clear night sky up until December 17, you might just catch a glimpse of a Geminid meteor.

Scientists in Germany say they have hit a new superconductivity milestone. According to their paper, they achieved resistance-free electrical current at the highest temperature yet: just 250 Kelvin, or -23 degrees Celsius (-9.4 degrees Fahrenheit).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the first human-made object to fly into the Sun's corona, completed its first solar flyby on November 11, collecting a wealth of unprecedented data about the workings of our magnificent home star. And now, weeks later, th

An initiative called Breakthrough Starshot wants to explore another star system using ultra-powerful laser beams and wafer-thin spaceships.

Ever since the Apollo missions explored the lunar surface, scientists have known that the Moon's craters are the result of a long history of meteor and asteroid impacts. But it has only been in the past few decades that we have come to understand h

Black holes are great at sucking up matter. So great, in fact, that not even light can escape their grasp (hence the name).

Envision yourself rising above the Earth and noticing the revolutions of the planets around our Sun. From there you take notice of our Sun dancing with its companion and that this companionship is but one in many within our Milky Way galaxy. Take yourself…

All the planets in our Solar System have their charms, but few are as flashy and iconic as Saturn's glorious rings. But, like everything in the Universe, they're not going to last forever - and now planetary scientists have discovered that they're

Whatever you're doing for your New Year's celebrations, it's not going to be as awesome as New Horizons. On New Year's Day, the space probe will zoom right up close past an object in the Kuiper Belt called 2014 MU69 - nicknamed Ultima Thule.

Scientists have known for some time that Earth's atmosphere loses several hundred tons of oxygen each day. They understand how this oxygen loss happens on Earth's night side, but they're not sure how it happens on the day side.

Precious stones might be relatively rare and hidden deep underground here on Earth, but space is an absolute treasure chest. Astronomers have found a new class of planets, and they're so abundant in the compounds that make sapphires and rubies, the