Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-23T11:07:04.809Z How to view a partial lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse captured over the United Kingdom in 2007.…
Drill, Burnham, drill? The oil basin that is a totem for Trump – and a headache for Britain’s new PM | Fossil fuels
When oil was first discovered off the north-east coast of Scotland in September 1969, industry folklore has it…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
MIT engineers built a small room-temperature device that generates paired radio waves; a message encoded in one signal could be decoded only with its matching partner
MIT researchers develop room-temperature quantum technology using magnetic film to enable secure communication. (AI Image) Quantum technology has…
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
The Sky Today on Sunday, August 23: Double star Zeta Coronae Borealis
Back to Article List Seek out this easy-to-split but complex multiple star system in the Northern Crown, visible…
Japan reports injuries in earthquake that struck eastern regions
Tokyo, Japan – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Japan, injuring 37 people. Authorities immediately began assessing the…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit
Helium atoms can produce coherent X-rays at energies beyond the cutoff predicted by standard high-harmonic theory. Credit: Shutterstock…
A South African couple combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve, restored the land and brought cheetahs back to the Great Karoo after 130 years
Samara reintroduced wild cheetahs to the Great Karoo in 2004 after 130 years. (Picture: Samara) In 1997, couple…
Stars Survive Despite Black Holes’ Repeated Attacks
Most galaxies are thought to harbor a supermassive black hole at their center. These enormous objects can weigh…
Surveys at the Ivanpah solar site in the Mojave predicted at most 32 desert tortoises, and crews then unearthed close to 1,000, halted construction for three months and spent 56 million dollars relocating them, with one juvenile carried off to an eagle nest, microchip still pinging
Before the bulldozers rolled into the Ivanpah Valley, in the California Mojave just short of the Nevada line,…