As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

Astronomers have found a rare form of methanol, a type of alcohol, in a planet-forming disk, providing a critical step in ...

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Academy Fellow Professor Nalini Joshi (left) with Fiona Hall, daughter of Ruby Payne-Scott and prominent Australian artist.A ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars , with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is ...

Called Asteroid 2025 FA22, the space rock was placed at number three on the risk list by the agency for "possible impact" ...

In the cold winter sunshine, colours burst, flavours are accentuated, and the world seems a better place because the Karoo is in it.

It turns out one-billion-year-old mudstones unique to the Scottish coastline are very like the red planet's terrain ...

A new international project promises to “revolutionise” our knowledge of the solar system through discovering millions of its ...

The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO) is world-renown for fantastic shale fossil deposits (insects and plants), ...