Southern Europe burns as three firefighters die and France battles blaze four times the size of Paris
An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris is threatening to surge again in south-west France, as…
See The First Perseids As Solar Eclipse Nears: The Night Sky This Week
Topline August begins with a comet getting close to the sun, but for most skywatchers it will be…
Wildlife-devouring feral cat ‘Nine Lives’ caught after three-year effort
A wildlife-devouring feral cat so elusive it was nicknamed ‘Nine Lives’ has been caught after a massive three-year…
Reconstructed coal waste shows promise as active catalyst for wastewater treatment
image: ©Leonsbox | iStock A new review published in Environmental and Biogeochemical Processes suggests that coal gangue, one…
UK drought: crop harvests at severe risk of collapse
Much of England is now officially in drought. Reservoir levels are being closely monitored by water companies, while…
NASA Urges U.S. Public To Watch Aug. 12’s Total Solar Eclipse
Two years after April 8, 2024’s North American eclipse, NASA is once again preparing to broadcast one of…
Rogue Cable Beach camel bucks tourists off during sunset ride
Two people were bucked off one of Broome’s camels during a ride on Cable Beach, in Western Australia’s…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026, carries a mirror the size of Hubble’s but sees a patch of sky about a hundred times wider, built mainly to map dark energy and hunt for planets
NASA’s next great observatory is finished, fuelled and nearly ready to fly. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
Australia has long relied on volunteers and wildlife carers. As bird flu spreads, they will need support
Australia had years to prepare for the arrival of bird flu. The deadly, highly transmissible H5N1 strain emerged…
Mars rover finds unusual honeycomb landscape – Newsreel
NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled across an unusual “honeycomb” landscape on the red planet. The rover was operating…
Starwatch: Mercury to reach farthest point from the sun | Astronomy
This week offers one of the better opportunities of the year to catch a glimpse of the solar…
Meteor Vaporizes, Photobombs Lacerta Nebula
APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our…