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This drill isn’t after oil, it’s after aliens

Honeybee Robotics is working with Nasa to develop a robotic space drill that can bore through miles of rock, ice on Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa to search for life underground

1 min read12 May 2016
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Oldest known axe discovered in Australia

ANU's archeologists say the axe dates back between 46,000 and 49,000 years, around the time people first arrived on the Australia continent

2 min read11 May 2016
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Nasa says 1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope

Of the new trove of 1,284 planets, nearly 550 could be rocky planets like Earth, based on their size, says Nasa

2 min read11 May 2016

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