A recently-discovered asteroid, which is estimated to be between 130ft and 330ft in diameter, could strike Planet Earth in ...

IF you’ve got any plans for December 22, 2032, you might want to bring them forward. Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled. If ...

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The IGNIS project, a collaboration with Australian universities, will use sensors to provide a “3D view inside a thundercloud ...

World-renowned crop scientist Prof Cristóbal Uauy has been appointed as director of the John Innes Centre, based on the ...

D-Wave Quantum said Wednesday that it had sold the world’s largest quantum computer to a German research institute, marking a milestone in a highly speculative sector. With the purchase, the Jülich ...

BUDGET OR BUST: It’s do-or-die time for Speaker Mike Johnson. At 10 a.m., the House Budget Committee marks up leadership’s budget resolution as Johnson practically dares a small cadre of intransigent ...

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Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency's main technology development and test centre for spacecraft and space technology. It is situated in Noordwijk, ...