SpaceX rocket taxi returns after Roman Telescope launch photo of the day for Sept. 8, 2026
This might look like a rocket launching off Earth, but it’s actually a rocket booster perfectly landing on…
Scientists Studied 2,580 Ocean Heatwaves and Found a Hidden Source of Heat They Had Been Missing
Marine heatwaves could be exposing coastal ecosystems to much more accumulated heat than scientists previously thought. A new…
NASA Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images
Algorithm NASA first applied to satellite imagery is now used to peer into antiquity High in the central tower…
Some Black Holes Grow Much Faster Than Their Galaxies
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don’t have had theirs ejected during a…
Crocodile head found in luggage at Italian airport | Illegal wildlife trade
An Italian man is facing a hefty fine or possible prison term after the dried head of a…
Scientists Monitor Atlantic Ocean Changes
The year is 2060. London shudders through months of Nordic winter freezes. Across northern Europe, oak and beech…
The U.S.’s deadliest disaster brought destruction to Canada
The hurricane that tore through Galveston, Texas, on the night of Sept. 8, 1900, remains the deadliest natural…
Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets
The fuel for a fully reusable rocket that can unlock truly low-cost access to space isn’t methane or…
Superconducting circuits hit world’s first 3.8M junction density
Imec has demonstrated a world-first density for a superconducting circuit, packing 3.8 million Josephson junctions into one square…
A fossil pincer more than 159 millimetres long has been identified as a scorpion’s, after a century in which the animal was most often filed among the crustaceans, and the scorpion reading was still being rejected in 2024
A fossil pincer held at the Natural History Museum in London is more than 159 millimetres long. One…
The Vela Incident: Did an American satellite detect a secret nuclear test in 1979?
It began with an unusual flash detected off the coast of South Africa by an aging American satellite…
10 Elusive Animals That Finally Showed Up for the Cameras
No person today has seen a living woolly mammoth. And unless a big tech company produces a clone,…