First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes after takeoff
Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless A test rocket aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe...
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Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere
Partial solar eclipse will be visible to differing degrees depending on where you watch it in the northern hemisphere Here’s a view of the sun...
Europe’s first Mars rover will have UK-built lander
Airbus also built the Rosalind Franklin rover, due to launch in 2028 to search for signs of past life Europe’s first rover to be sent...
Scientists point to Andes potato pathogen as origin of Irish famine
Researchers say study may help global efforts in controlling disease that still destroys crops today It was a disaster that killed about 1 million people,...
Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical texts Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the...
How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects
Maria Sibylla Merian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations, which shaped how we look at the natural world, will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum More than...
Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study
Research argues tremors occurred as Vesuvius erupted in AD79, causing buildings to collapse on to people Victims who perished in Pompeii after the devastating AD79...
Remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago found in central France
Archaeologists trying to determine whether animals were killed in battle or buried as part of a ritual French archaeologists have uncovered nine large graves containing...
Video of sun’s surface captures solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss
Ethereal scenes of flowing super-heated material may help explain why atmosphere is hotter than surface The sun’s otherworldly landscape, including coronal moss, solar rain and...
Banquet room with preserved frescoes unearthed among Pompeii ruins
‘Black room’ with frescoes inspired by Trojan war described as one of most striking discoveries ever made at site in southern Italy A banquet room...
