China’s new moon mission could unlock secret of lunar ice: Why that matters | Space News
China is set to launch its Chang’e-7 unmanned, robotic space mission, possibly as early as Monday morning, to…
Little penguin on King Island tests positive for bird flu
Tasmania has recorded another positive bird flu case, with a little penguin collected from Grassy on King Island…
Dry Martian Meteorite Reveals Early Water in Mars’s Crust
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and…
Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays
A decades-old puzzle in nuclear physics has centered on a strange question: why do some atomic nuclei release…
Hiker Lily Hooper remembered as someone ‘everyone liked’ – as it happened | Australia news
Tributes flow for hiker Lily HooperKat Wong Lily Hooper has been remembered for her smile, her talent and…
APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our…
The world’s biggest trees could hold the secret to coping with drought
Rising more than 70 metres above the rainforest canopy, a giant skyscraper of a tropical tree can seem…
Voyager 2 discovered ten moons when it flew past Uranus in 1986. Nearly 40 years later, James Webb found one it missed: Uranus’s 29th known moon, a tiny world only about 10 kilometres wide hiding among the planet’s inner moons.
When Voyager 2 crossed the Uranian system on 24 January 1986, its cameras found ten moons that had…
The 1919 Eclipse Plates That Proved Einstein Right
For about five minutes on May 29, 1919, the Moon blotted out the Sun over an island in…
Midway Atoll eradicated invasive rats after Bonin petrels had fallen to fewer than 5,000 nesting pairs; by 2008 the seabird colony had rebounded to more than 135,000 pairs
Black rat eradication restored Midway Atoll’s ecosystem, helping Bonin petrels rebound from fewer than 5,000 to over 135,000…
AI Unlocks Key DNA Code in Gene Activation Study
Precise activation of tens of thousands of genes is critical for healthy development and growth. Specialized segments of…
In Focus | As natural disasters rage, does China’s ‘top-down’ climate model provide a way forward?
A punishing drought is draining Europe’s great rivers, pushing the Loire, the Danube and the Rhine towards record…