The moon and Earth are remarkably similar NASA/Bill Anders By Leah Crane The moon may be made of magma, according to a new idea about how Earth’s cosmic companion formed. The leading hypothesis for the birth of the moon is that a Mars-sized object called …
Titan hides behind the rings of Saturn NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Leah Crane Titan has a huge ice belt near its equator, and we dont know how it got there. Most of the surface is covered in organic sediment that constantly rains from the s…
This black hole is feeding on a “doughnut” made from a star ICAR By Ruby Prosser Scully Astronomers have spotted a wonky black hole shooting jets of plasma clouds in different directions as a result of rapidly consuming a star. While black holes are known…
Twins in Kodinhi are surprisingly common Hemis / Alamy Stock Photo By Clare Wilson A small village in India is seeing an explosion in the number of twins born and no one knows why. Kodinhi, in the southern state of Kerala, now has one thousand twins in a …
Mark Kerrison / Alamy By Adam Vaughan Protesters want an end to UK frackingIs there a future for fracking in the UK? Natascha Engel, the country’s shale gas commissioner, doesnt think so. She resigned yesterday, accusing the government of blocking the shale…
The whale was wearing a harness with the words Equipment of St Petersburg printed on it. Jørgen Ree Wiig/Fiskeridirektoratet By Sam Wong A beluga whale wearing a tight harness spotted by fishermen off the coast of Norway may have been trained by the Russia…
Activists blocked streets outside the Bank of England on 25 April Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images By Adam Vaughan Hundreds of climate change campaigners will leave the streets of London today, following 11 days of protests that brought parts of the …
Tiny phages that usually infect microbes could fight cancer Science Photo Library/Getty By Michael Le Page People with incurable melanomas and brain or breast cancers are to get injections of tumour-fighting viruses. The trial will test the safety of a vi…
Extinction Rebellion protestors in London on 15 April Dinendra Haria/LNP/Shutterstock By Adam Vaughan Hundreds of people were arrested this week for taking part in protests organised by Extinction Rebellion, a group demanding that the UK set legally bindin…
The hominin-like piece of upper jaw was found in Nikiti, Greece David R. Begun By Colin Barras THE jaws of an ancient European ape might speak volumes about the origins of our ancestors. A new analysis of these fossils supports a controversial idea: that t…
