Electricity price fall ‘positive signal’ for switch from fossil fuels
Falling wholesale electricity prices could give some businesses more confidence to switch from fossil fuels to renewable power,…
Special guest dazzles aspiring young astronauts at Adelaide’s Space Day Out
The Australian Space Agency kicked off Australian Space Week on Sunday with a new event aimed at inspiring…
The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of Gold : ScienceAlert
Materials in a quantum state come with exotic properties that bend the laws of physics and offer huge…
Geologists have taught for decades that rivers needed plants to form their distinctive S-shaped meanders, but Stanford University researchers published a study in August 2025 showing that rivers were carving those curves long before vegetation existed on land
For most of Earth’s history, no trees, grasses or roots held riverbanks together. The familiar geological picture has…
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long
Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains…
Scientists find a way to break molecular bonds with less energy
A new study has found that the quantum vacuum – the faint energy that fills even empty space…
The Sky Today on Sunday, July 19: An oval-shaped nebula
Back to Article List Planetary nebula 6563 is a worthy challenge for larger scopes, floating near the base…
7 Stargazing Accessories You Need This Summer — And When To Use Them
The Sky View XL Stargazing Tent features an ultra-fine mesh roof. Eric_Weiland/Sky View (used with permission) Summer is…
Plastic waste could be cheaply recycled using water and oxygen
Researchers have found a way to break down everyday plastic waste into valuable chemicals using nothing but water…
We tend to think reusable rockets are still experimental, but in 2025 SpaceX’s partly reusable Falcon 9 flew 165 missions — one every 2.2 days — and successfully delivered its payload on every flight
The old image of a reusable rocket is still a test article: stainless steel, scorch marks, crowds watching…
Israel clears way for crocodiles to stop prison breaks
Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman has given a new classification to crocodiles, in a move that may allow…
This ancient star cluster should be filled with black holes from exploding stars. Astronomers just found the first one
The discovery of a black hole in one of the oldest objects in the Universe could mark the…