New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
Learning how to bend light at the Orlando Science Center
Learning how to bend light at the Orlando Science Center Check out this fun activity on this week’s…
It resembled a biplane when airborne, with a wingspan that measured a massive 7m across. It was incredibly heavy too; tipping the scales at 72kg
Argentavis resembled a small biplane when airborne, with a wingspan that measured approximately 7m across. It was incredibly…
At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that astronomers can see light from galaxies billions of light-years away with a clarity impossible at sea level — which is why 11 countries have built 13 major telescopes on what is technically a dormant volcano
At the summit of Mauna Kea, above roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s atmosphere and close to…
Earth had life for roughly three billion years before it produced enough oxygen to be detectable from space, which means NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope could be staring directly at an inhabited world and see nothing
For most of Earth’s inhabited history, an astronomer on another world could have studied our atmosphere and missed…
David Malin Astrophotography Awards 2026
Above: “Bay Beyond Beauty” by Mark Osmotherly, Highly Commended, Nightscapes (International) Category, David Malin Awards 2026 “Observers” by Nathan…
The Chinese bahaba, a critically endangered fish nicknamed the ‘Panda of the Sea,’ was missing from Hong Kong for over a decade, until its DNA gave it away
Trace DNA reveals critically endangered Chinese bahaba in Hong Kong after decade without records Traces of genetic material…
Walking shark discovered in Papua New Guinea
A team of scientists has discovered a new species of walking shark, just in time for Shark Week…
Antarctica’s ‘hummingbird’ revealed in stunning new NASA radar
article A new radar image captured by the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite reveals an Antarctic landscape…
The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire
Two devastating wildfires that swept through California’s Sierra Nevada in 2020 and 2021 killed thousands of giant sequoias.…
I’m not an astronaut, but I went to the International Space Station (sort of)
NEW YORK — I’m the kind of person who, every so often, falls into accidental daydreams about the…
Low-energy nuclear fusion rates boosted inside host metals in US tests
Scientists at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered that surrounding materials can dramatically increase how…