Science

A new British company is harnessing Mars exploration technology that has applications in environmental monitoring, diagnosing disease, and detecting counterfeit foods. Based upon...

With the successful retrieval of digital data encoded in snippets of synthetic DNA sequences, the University of Washington (UW) has...

Johns Hopkins reveals the most beneficial dose for the active ingredient in magic mushrooms for treating depression while best-selling author Tim...

Sociable’s George Chilton takes a look at a new educational robot for kids from Dash Robotics and talks about the...

Dublin's workforce will get a jolt of science with their morning commute over the next two months as scientists, digital designers, and developers promote physics to the masses

A tiny meteorite has made a huge impact on the Lunar surface and NASA is currently hunting for it.

Why did NASA and MIT send a copy of the 500 year old Mona Lisa into space? And how can a renaissance painting and a 1960's mathematical theorem help in space communications?

The European Space Agency has released a stunning image of the UK, Ireland, France, and the Benelux countries recorded from space.

Google has updated its crisis response map to show the latest data about the bush fires spreading through New South Wales in Australia.

It's 204 million miles away, so how does NASA drive the Curiosity Rover on Mars? This video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains.

NASA will crash two satellites into a mountain near the North Pole of the Moon today as its GRAIL satellites go out with a bang.

The Aurora will be visible much further south this weekend due to two "thanksgiving coronal mass ejections." Here's how you can see the Northern Lights when they hit.

A new NASA website will help star gazers and space photographers find out when the International Space Station will be overhead by issuing sms and email alerts.

Earth is about to receive its first visible communication from space - after the Japanese launched their Niwaka satellite which will flash Morse code messages back to Earth next month.

Ever wonder why the night sky is dark even though it is filled with countless stars just about as bright as the sun?

NASA's Curiosity Rover has found evidence of fast flowing and regular streams on Mars, which might give the rover a good chance of finding life in the area.

Twitter releases a visualisation of the 1.6 million tweets that were sent in memoriam of Neil Armstrong in the 24 following his death.

The family of the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, has announced his death, aged 82.

An official NASA animated gif shows off Curiosity's "#wigglewigglewiggle" ahead of the Martian rover's first movements on the Red Planet.

We know what NASA wanted to happen when it landed its Curiosity Rover on Mars but here's what it looked like when it did. Awesome.