Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is not the only cosmic body making news. Radio signals from distant parts of the universe have regularly been observed. Now scientists have noticed a Halley-type comet ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

Planet X has not yet been discovered, and there is debate in scientific community about whether it exists Astronomers have discovered fresh evidence suggesting the possible existence of an unseen ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Rooftop solar PV has been central to the global energy transition since its origins, starting with Charles Fritts’ rooftop Selenium cell in New York in 1883. The modern era began in the 1940s, when ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

It's probably a comet, but it might be some sort of ancient alien spacecraft or probe. What's for sure is that the mystery surrounding an object known as 3I/ATLAS is becoming both more and ...

In 2017 Oumuamua became the first known object to enter our solar system from another star Its strange shape and speed defied explanation Now scientists are preparing Project Lyra a daring mission to ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...