Astronomers Are Finding More “Dark Comets” Hiding in Plain Sight Near Earth : ScienceAlert
The Solar System is full of the ghostly remnants of its violent birth. This ancient debris includes sad…
July full Moon: How and when to see the 2026 Buck Moon
Based on current forecast models, there is a good chance of seeing the Buck Moon across much of…
Young leopard seal spotted napping on greater Hobart beach
A young leopard seal has turned up on a greater Hobart beach this weekend, drawing dozens of curious…
Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a saltwater ocean that may contain more than twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined, yet a new measurement puts 29 kilometres of solid ice above it, a barrier taller than three Mount Everests stacked end to end
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean hidden inside it may hold more than twice as…
Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For Aug. 12’s Solar Eclipse
Topline It’s time to find your old solar eclipse glasses from the “Great North American Eclipse” on April…
Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops”
Humans and every other vertebrate may share an astonishingly strange ancestor: a tiny creature with a single eye…
Total Solar Eclipse ‘Map Of Nope’ Meme Is A Must-See Before August
Topline A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe, but only to a narrow path across parts of…
Why spiders deserve our respect, not fear or disgust
I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of…
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This…
Earth’s Hidden Thermostat Has Regulated Climate for 60 Million Years
For tens of millions of years, Earth’s climate may have been stabilized by a hidden feedback linking sea…
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the South Pole itself into a telescope that looks down through the entire planet to catch particles arriving from the other side of the sky
At the South Pole, the sky is not the only direction from which astronomy can be done. Buried…
KAIST Unveils Molecular Switch for Cancer Therapy
Cells carry their own growth switches. When enough nutrients—amino acids in particular—are available, cells flip this switch on…