Science

The numbers are hard to hold in the mind. S301 is a newly discovered star orbiting Sagittarius A* at roughly 25,000 kilometres per second, making it the fastest known star in the Milky Way, moving at about 8 per cent of the speed of light, fast enough to cross Australia's entire east coast in a

Drug discovery has a long-standing and expensive flaw. Only about one in 10,000 compounds entering preclinical pipelines ever reaches the clinic, a failure rate that has resisted every wave of laboratory automation for decades.

Read the stranding records for the Gulf of Carpentaria and one thing stands out: pygmy blue whales do not belong there. The Gulf is shallow, warm and enclosed, sitting well inside waters the subspecies is almost never documented to enter.

Alfie and Bailey were born in September 2024 and look, by all appearances, like any other floppy-eared beagle pups. What they are missing at the molecular level is the reason a New York biotech has spent years on them.

The Australian Space Agency has identified charred spherical objects washing up on Queensland beaches as pressure vessels from a foreign rocket body that re-entered the atmosphere from orbit.

The Artemis II crew passed 252,756 miles from Earth on April 6, surpassing a distance record that had stood since the Apollo 13 emergency in 1970.

The NHS-Galleri trial, which enrolled more than 140,000 volunteers to test a blood test capable of detecting over 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear, is expected to report final results in 2026.

NASA's Artemis II mission broke Apollo 13's 56-year record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth, reaching 252,756 miles during a lunar flyby on April 6. The four-person crew includes the first woman, first person of colour, and first non-American to fly around the Moon.