China’s lunar research station could be guarded by robot watchdogs, space scientists say
Robot dogs could one day lead the way across the moon, patrolling research stations, scouting hazards and helping…
Britain’s green pastures and parks turn brown as drought grips country
Britain is known for its grey skies and miserable weather. But as a devastating drought grips more than…
How cleaning up space debris could grow to become a big business
This depicts the satellite-filled sky that is now a reality and getting more crowded every week. (Photo by:…
Australia’s wild camels find new life in milk, beer and desert races
ROBE, Aug 8 — Far from their origins in the Arabian desert, hundreds of thousands of camels roam…
‘Fearless and quietly astonishing’: the dragonfly that migrates further than any other insect | Environment
All hail the wandering glider, a citizen of the globe, an insect for all of us. Whenever we…
This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Europe is burning. This summer, an unprecedented series of heatwaves has swept through the continent and across many…
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon with an improvised six-iron: Both remain there 55 years later
Alan Shepard/AI representation of the Golf Club | Wikimedia Commons/ChatGPT Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard paused near the…
Lion cubs saved from illegal wildlife trade find new home in South Africa
Two lion cubs, Ben Tzur and Uri, who were rescued last year after being illegally trafficked into Israel,…
Every turn of Curiosity’s six aluminium wheels stamps the letters JPL into Mars in Morse code — a signature hidden in dots and dashes that is not merely decorative, because the rover photographs those tracks to measure how far its wheels slipped on sand and rock
Curiosity has been pressing the same short message into Mars since its first test drive in August 2012.…
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the deadly health burden of wildfire smoke | Wildfires
A thousand kilometres from the infernos gorging on northern Ontario’s boreal forests, Erin O’Connor watched the sky above…
Scientists explain how the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism copied the Moon’s changing speed without modern technology |
The Moon does not travel across the sky at a constant pace. Its speed changes throughout each orbit,…
Constantine Koukias’s Vast a sensory evocation of universe ecstasy
It turns out the solipsists are right: we are all, each, at the centre of the universe. That…