Surfer finds new life for decommissioned wind turbine blades
At the Waubra Wind Farm near Ballarat, 40-metre turbine blades that once helped power the state are being…
Plato aces space-like tests, keeping hunt for Earth-like worlds on track
Close-up of Plato’s cameras. Credit: European Space Agency The European Space Agency Plato mission has successfully completed a…
Colibre: A New Cosmic Simulation With Cinematic Flair
We can’t really understand the Universe without knowing its history. Since galaxies are among the Universe’s defining features,…
Mysterious golden orb discovered on the ocean floor near Alaska is identified over 2 years later
Huzzah! The mystery of an unidentified golden object that had been discovered on the ocean floor off Alaska’s…
This black hole is so massive its galaxy may never stabilize
One of the universe’s earliest known black holes may have outgrown its galaxy for good. New observations of…
Muon Magnetic Moment Matches Model, Making Major Malaise
Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a…
2026 Green Powered Challenge: Solar-Powered Pollution Monitor
As we learn more about all the nasty stuff floating in the air, it becomes more compelling to…
Comet PanSTARRS approaches Earth on April 26. Here’s how to see it in satellite images this weekend
Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) continues to brighten ahead of its closest approach to Earth on April 26, and…
‘Environmental destruction’: Stream near Hawk Ridge development dries up after berm breaches
‘The brook trout are gone from a beautiful, healthy cold water stream … now it’s filled with muck…
This X-ray image shows our solar system ‘breathing’
Astronomers have, for the first time, spotted the “breath of the solar system.” The finding comes in the…
Soundwaves settle debate about elusive quantum particle
It was a head-spinning discovery. In 2018, researchers in Japan claimed to find concrete evidence of an elusive…
For more than a century, the ocean has prevented a severe global drought, but almost no one has described it that way
What if drought hit several of the world’s biggest food-growing regions at the same time? That worst-case timing…