Boeing has finally unveiled a concept for the potential successor to the legendary Blackbird SR-71 spy plane – and it is set to travel at more than five times the speed of sound. This ‘Son of Blackbird’ could become a high-speed strike and reconnaissance aircraft in warfare of the future, travelling at such speeds that …

Scientists examining an exhaustive survey of roughly 400 million objects in the cosmos have discovered incredible new insight on the violent ‘eating’ habits of the Milky Way. Preliminary results from the Dark Energy survey have revealed a stunning look at the remains of 11 smaller galaxies that have been devoured by our own, reducing them …

Jaws dropped as Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai announced on Twitter Monday that he had grown 3.5 inches in the span of just three weeks while aboard the International Space Station (ISS). “Today I share some serious news. Since coming to space, I have grown 9 centimeters. This is the most I’ve grown in three weeks …

Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, in a ‘game changing’ development that could provide unlimited water for the first human visitors to the red planet. It offers new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located. Erosion has exposed eight ice sites, some as shallow …

They have mystified astronomers for more than a decade, but the source of repeating ‘alien signals’, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), may finally have been found. The incredibly strong pulses seem to come from a black hole or an orbiting neutron star with ‘unprecedented power’ three billion light-years from Earth, experts say. Scientists believe …