Hubble Weighs in on Mass of Three Million Billion Suns

Galaxy cluster ACT-CLJ0102-4915, or “El Gordo” contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns. It is the largest, hottest, and brightest X-ray galaxy cluster ever discovered in the distant Universe.

A Teenager Just Won $250,000 For Her Way Of Explaining Relativity

An 18-year-old from the Philippines recently explained part of Einstein’s theories of relativity in a short video clip. For her efforts, she’s won the highly-coveted 2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge.

Robots Are Now Beating Humans At Reading Comprehension Tests Too

The algorithm, which uses natural-language processing, managed to beat human scores on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD).

Chernobyl goes green as solar plant nears completion

Ukraine hopes it can transform how the world sees Chernobyl by making a bad situation good again.

ARON ecosystem enables augmented reality without Wi-Fi

New platform, ARON, is a communications system designed to transmit real-world data via infrared light.

South Australia to host world's largest thermal solar plant

The $650 million, 150 megawatt solar plant has received state development approval and construction on the project will begin in 2018.

A company in US dives headfirst into water recycling

By the end of the year, the 1.4 million-square foot, 61-story skyscraper will boast the largest commercial "blackwater" recycling system in the United States.

Scotland will become the first UK country to ban plastic cotton swabs

The hope is that the ban will cut down on the country’s contribution to ocean plastic, possibly even by half.

China announces plans for 6.6 million-hectare reforestation project

The government of China has announced its plans to plant forests in 2018 that will occupy at least 6.6 million hectares, equivalent to the size of Ireland.

Fly Into the Orion Nebula - New 3D Visualization

Roughly 1300 light-years from Earth lies the Orion Nebula. A team at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in US created this zoom into the stellar nursery and a 3D visualization.

Vast Sheets of Ice Have Been Found on Mars

Researchers have identified eight, massive sheets of ice just below the Martian surface, and they appear to be relatively young deposits.

Star System With Five Planets Discovered by Amateur Astronomers

For the first time in history, a crowdsourced team of amateur citizen scientists has discovered a multi-planetary system.

Major breakthrough in the development of bioelectronics

Researchers have developed the world's first complementary electrochemical logic circuits that can function stably for long periods in water.

Intriguing organic molecule benzonitrile in interstellar space

Astronomers have made the first definitive interstellar detection of benzonitrile, an intriguing organic molecule. This discovery is a vital clue in a 30-year-old mystery: identifying the source of a faint infrared glow that permeates the Milky Way and other galaxies.

Virgin Galactic tests leading to rocket-powered flights

Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket ship is gearing up for powered flights that could eventually carry paying tourists into space from southern New Mexico, US.