Timekeepers meeting in Versailles have voted to stop adding leap seconds to the world’s clocks from May 2027. Official time and the spinning Earth will now be allowed to drift apart by up to an hour, and the reason is our planet has started spinning a little faster.

Way back in 1991, a tiny visitor from outer space arrived on Earth carrying a truly ridiculous amount of energy. 35 years later, scientists are still asking WTF?

A massive weekend for a massive telescope, a chance to shine a light on the stuff that doesn’t shine, & an old beauty reminds us why she’s so cool with possibly the most awesome images I’ve ever seen.

A Sydney PhD student has traced one of space's most baffling radio signals to a white dwarf feeding off its neighbour, the clearest clue yet to a mystery that has held out for years.

On 29 June, the Large Hadron Collider smashes its last protons for four long years. NerdNews raises a glass to the 27-kilometre marvel that caught the Higgs, and peers down the tunnel at what its supercharged successor might find.