Science
Planet just 31 light years from Earth is ‘potentially habitable’
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system
Photographer waits 12 months to take pic of Milky Way off coast of Devon
Rob Stillwell said the conditions had to be perfect
Astronomers uncover three new exoplanets 73 light years away
Unfortunately none of them look like they can support water and life.
Leaving EU without deal a threat to UK science sector, charity warns
Leaving the EU without a deal is a threat to the UK’s “thriving” science sector.
Milky Way ‘cannibalised galaxy one-quarter of its mass 10 billion years ago’
Researchers find the majority of stars in the halo of the Milky Way closer to the Sun have ages ranging up to 10 billion years old.
Human trials of world’s first HIV jab to begin
A protective injection is the 'holy grail' of AIDS research. Since the epidemic began almost four decades ago only four have been tested on patients - with none proving a success
Human ancestor that lived millions of years ago ‘was breastfed until 12-months-old’
Scientists say that the findings show the maternal behaviour of Australopithecus africanus was closer to modern humans than great apes - which nurse for longer
Mars could be made habitable by creating small islands
An inch thick layer of tiles made out of silica aerogel - a fluffy white powder that is mostly air - would be enough to insulate the frozen world
Skull unearthed in Greece ‘belonged to first known European’
It dates back 210,000 years and is the earliest evidence of modern humans on the continent - rewriting the history of mankind