Image: Lake Balaton in western Hungary from orbit

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Balaton in western Hungary. With a surface area…

Discovery paves way for new generation of solar cells

A new study explains how a promising type of perovskites — human-made crystals that can convert…

Overview of Guidance, Navigation and Control System of the TeamIndus lunar lander

Overview of Guidance, Navigation and Control System of the TeamIndus lunar lander Click here…

Enhanced Kinetic Impactor for Deflecting Large-scale Potentially Hazardous Asteroids via Maneuvering Space Rocks

Enhanced Kinetic Impactor for Deflecting Large-scale Potentially Hazardous Asteroids via Maneuvering Space Rocks Click…

World's smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle

A team of Peruvian and American scientists have uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil…

Hidden life revealed inside dinosaur bones

One of the tricks you learn hunting dinosaurs in Canada is to look for orange. Dinosaur…

Dinosaur bone: Scientists uncover giant femur in France

The two-metre long femur is thought to have belonged to a sauropod from the late Jurassic…

Space junk: A recycling station could be cleaning up in Earth orbit by 2050

There are about 22,000 large objects orbiting the Earth, including working and broken satellites and bits…

Radiotherapy targets tumours precisely — with less damage to healthy cells

A new way of concentrating radiotherapy dose in tumors, while minimizing damage to healthy cells, has…

Earth's 'boring billion' years of stagnant, stinking oceans might actually have been rather dynamic

Geologists have dubbed Earth’s middle age the “boring billion.” Occurring some 1,800 to 800 million years…