In a groundbreaking study, scientists have quantified how quickly the human brain processes information, revealing a surprisingly slow speed of just 10 bits per second. Despite receiving billions of bits of data from our senses, including s more...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which orbited asteroid Vesta in 2012, captured images of enigmatic gullies on the asteroid's surface, prompting scientists to investigate their origins. A recent study published in the Planetary Science Journ more...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a record-breaking approach to the sun's surface on Christmas Eve. The spacecraft will come within 3.8 million miles of the sun, making it the closest any human-made object has ever come to more...

A recent study led by Professor Simone Pettigrew from The George Institute for Global Health has found an effective method to reduce alcohol consumption. The study combined a warning about the cancer risks associated with alcohol with a pra more...

NASA has announced that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June, will remain in space at least until late March 2025. Originally, they were meant to spend just more...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by finding a binary star system orbiting the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. Led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, German more...

NASA is pioneering new frontiers in space exploration with the development of tiny underwater robots through the Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers (SWIM) project. These innovative robots are designed to explore extraterrestrial oceans more...

Recent studies by British scientists reveal that the Earth's magnetic North Pole is moving at an accelerating pace, shifting towards Russia. Over the past few decades, its movement has significantly increased from 15 kilometers per hour more...

On November 19, 2024, SpaceX successfully launched the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) GSAT-20 communication satellite aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, which took place at 12:01 AM from Cape Canaveral Space Force Sta more...

A groundbreaking study using data from NASA and German satellites has revealed a concerning and persistent decline in Earth's freshwater reserves since May 2014. The findings, published in Surveys in Geophysics, highlight a significant more...