It is definitely not a candidate to become a new home for humanity. Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a turbulent planet outside our solar system - and found an astonishingly inhospitable environment. The exoplanet, called WASP-43b, is a world

 This is an image of a massive galaxy cluster that helped astronomers view one of the most distant and faintest galaxies ever studied. The Hubble Space Telescope might be 24 years old, but it's still making discoveries that are changing the way we see and understand our universe. Hubble's latest

Lithium-ion batteries power our laptops, cellphones, and electric cars. They are compact and rechargeable, but with a significant drawback: Occasionally, the batteries burst into flames. In 2013, Boeing grounded an entire fleet of planes after the lithium-ion batteries on two aircrafts caught fire.

Researchers in Taiwan have taken the unusual step of naming a newly identified species of snail in recognition of same-sex marriage rights. Dubbed Aegista diversifamilia, the hermaphroditic species was so named to reflect the “diversity of sexual orientation in the animal kingdom”, said Dr

A whisper from a lab-manufactured black hole may confirm the existence of radiation predicted by University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking four decades ago. If validated by further research, the finding would offer evidence that particles blinking in and out of existence can rob black holes