We just got a glimpse at what NASA’s Skyfall helicopters will look like in action
If you just can’t wait for NASA’s new Mars helicopters to get to work, you can now see…
Vietnamese scientists explore universe through some of world’s largest physics experiments
Through “High-Energy Physics Research through Selected International Experiments in Japan,” the Vietnamese scientists have joined two of the…
Race begins to vaccinate Phillip Island’s famous little penguin colony
Victorian wildlife officers will spend the coming weeks catching and vaccinating penguins against the devastating strain of bird…
NASA plans three more 2026 lunar task orders, including an orbiter to follow LRO
NASA’s June Moon Base update said it would solicit proposals for additional lunar deliveries, including a South Pole…
Greek wildfire kills two people as aircraft deployed to blaze at Belgian nature reserve | Wildfires
An elderly couple died in fires on the Greek island of Salamis on Sunday and a fire ravaged…
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a spacecraft with razor-thin power margins and no possibility of physical repair.
Voyager 2 has no repair port that anyone can reach, no spare spacecraft waiting nearby and no possibility…
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture…
‘Giraffe’s head’ sinkhole stunt backfires in South Africa
When politicians from South Africa’s main opposition party put a stuffed giraffe’s head into a sinkhole, their plan…
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
On one night in August 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope recorded a faint point of mid-infrared light…
Newer blood thinners linked to slower Alzheimer’s decline
Newer blood thinners were linked to slightly slower memory and thinking decline in people with both Alzheimer’s disease…
From Wales with love: Stranded sea turtle Rhossi back in Texas after epic 5k-mile trek : NPR
NPR’s Eyder Peralta talks to the care team of Rhossi, a sea turtle from the Gulf of Mexico…
NASA funds spherical ‘Aerobots’ that could explore the caves of Saturn’s moon Titan
Spherical “Aerobots” may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says…