Rosetta crash lands on comet, ending historic mission
The European Space Agency said the Rosetta spacecraft has crash-landed on a comet after an historic 12 years spent chasing it across more than 6 billion kilometres of space.
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Walking fly with a double penis discovered 'by accident'
The potential benefits of a double-barrelled penis - for a fly anyway.
Mars awaits: Sydney rocket scientist to test ion drive in space
A Sydney rocket scientist has just signed a deal to test his ion drive in space.
Drongo the budgie may be model for future air safety
The future of air safety could lie in the example of Drongo, Nemo and Titan.
New evidence of water geysers erupting from Europa's icy ocean
It could be an intriguing step on the hunt for alien life on Jupiter's ocean-covered moon.
Like Star Wars: Australian scientists just froze light
Physicists at The Australian National University have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
World's largest radio telescope switches on
World's largest single-dish radio telescope, in a majestic but impoverished part of china, looks deep into the universe.
The moon may trigger major earthquakes, study finds
Why small earthquakes stay small, while others grow into monsters is one of the most enduring mysteries in earthquake science but we now have a partial, but tantalising answer: The moon and big tides.
Ig Nobel science awards recognise man who lived as a goat
The accolades are given for studies and findings that "make people laugh, and then think."
London museum finds 1883 SMH inside one-tonne sunfish​
A piece of the Herald found inside a giant fish shows not much has changed since 1883.
Breathtaking photos from space remind us of our common home
During the 50 years we have been able take photos of Earth from space, we have become somewhat blase about the little blue planet on which we live.
How scientists read an ancient and fragile biblical scroll without unrolling it
When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read. Now, 40 years alter, researchers
Space station will fall to Earth - somewhere - in 2017
Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017.
How early Aboriginal Australians journeyed from Africa
Aboriginal Australians are found to have the closest genetic links to Highland Papua New Guinea populations, providing new insights into the movement of early humans following their dispersal from Africa.
What you are missing out on if you don't do the maths
By corralling mathematics and science as (male) subjects for the unimaginative and the arts as (female) subjects of expression, we commit educational crimes.
The secret - and brutal - sex lives of redback spiders
Male redbacks have a previously unknown evolutionary trick to mate more than once.
Hubble catches a comet disintegrating into oblivion
After 4.5 billion years of existence, Comet 332P is dragging a growing trail of debris 4800 kilometres long.
CSIRO to be 'world's best' within a decade, says Hunt
The Turnbull government has set itself the goal of establishing the CSIRO as the "world's premier public research organisation" within 10 years.
Enzyme evolution revealed in groundbreaking ANU study
It could soon become easier to remove blood clots or get rid of pesticides from waterways thanks to new research carried out at the Australian National University.
Bringing a parrot in peril back from the brink
A concerted effort is underway to save the endangered golden shouldered parrot of remote Cape York.