The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

JRR Tolkien springs to mind, of course, but now a new exhibition in London is showcasing the wonderful maps created by the revered sci-fi writer Ursula K Le Guin, who rooted her genre-defying stories ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Fruit bats navigate using a stable internal compass based on landmarks, offering new insight into how mammal brains map the ...

If you’re planning a Disney World vacation, you’re probably on the step where you need to actually plan each day. What park are you going to? How are you going to get there? The typical logistics. If ...

Whether admitted outright or quietly padded in press kits, many male celebrities have long faced speculation about their real height. In showbiz, leading men are often tempted to bill themselves a few ...

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like the real thing – a breakthrough that could transform computing, medicine, ...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that the tetravalent dengue vaccine known as Qdenga provided significant protection against the disease under real-world conditions, during the ...

Battlefield 6‘s download size has been revealed ahead of pre-loading, and much to the joy of gamers everywhere, it’s scalable. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the file sizes for video games balloon ...