Feisty survivor: Sage the rare olive ridley turtle is going home after ghost net ordeal
Sage, a rare olive ridley turtle, was rescued from a ghost fishing net in December 2025 and…
Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system. JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage — although Nereid may be one original survivor.
Neptune has 16 known moons, yet it barely has a conventional moon system at all. Triton alone contains…
Arctic Rivers Are Defying What Scientists Thought They Knew About Erosion : ScienceAlert
Scientists have to follow the data, even if it doesn’t make sense. This is the situation that researchers…
Backyard astronomer from Broken Hill contributes to world-first Saturn discovery
From a backyard in outback NSW in 2024, a former mine worker spotted something mysterious in the sky…
Cape Cod’s great white sharks are turning the area into an ecotourism hub
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As great white sharks increasingly frequent the waters off one…
Sea salt may have made Snowball Earth far colder than previously thought
Salt crystals left behind on extremely cold tropical sea ice may have reflected as much as 93% of…
Air conditioners are our best bet in the fight against extreme heat – whether we like it or not | Eduardo Porter
The greenest campaigners against climate change have long suffered from a crippling shortcoming: they too often frame the…
Astronaut captures Miami lighting shift from space
A photograph of Miami lit by multi-colored LEDs in 2025 taken from the International Space Station. Courtesy of…
Rare bigfin squid spotted for first time in Pacific Ocean
A rare squid was spotted for the first time ever in the northeast Pacific Ocean — one of…
Physicists Observe Einstein’s Gravity Effect On Quantum Object In First-Of-Its-Kind Experiment
BEERSHEBA, Israel — An international team of physicists, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Roger Penrose, has directly observed…
It’s one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it’s about to bloom with millions of flowers
Stretching along an over 1,000km-long strip of land in northern Chile, west of the Andes, is the Atacama…
Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic Alfvén-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels from Earth.
Enceladus is small enough to fit comfortably within the length of Great Britain. Its electromagnetic influence, however, reaches…