Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth

The engineers trying to save a fading Voyager had one chance to fire thrusters frozen and unused for 37 years, and when the signal finally returned they learned the impossible had worked

Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than every known oil and gas reserve on Earth combined, yet you couldn't light a single drop — its air is nitrogen and methane, with almost no oxygen, so a campfire is physically impossible

Saturn's moon Titan contains hydrocarbon reserves vastly exceeding Earth's, though its oxygen-free atmosphere prevents combustion.

Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa

Researchers have recovered 50,000-year-old DNA from a South African antelope, challenging previous assumptions about genetic preservation in Africa.

Meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home is a rare solar system fragment

How naked mole-rat queens stop rivals reproducing

Researchers have identified the chemical scent used by naked mole-rat queens to prevent other colony members from reproducing.

New 3D-printed ‘invisibility’ cloak can hide objects from infrared cameras