On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissions.
The sunlight arriving at Earth this moment left the Sun’s visible surface a little over eight minutes ago.…
Biopsies, aerial drills and a personal pizza: a day in the life of a shark scientist | Well actually
“Sharks are not monsters, they just need better PR,” writes Jasmin Graham. And she should know: Graham is…
Nature blocks a neutrino laser before physicists can ever build one
Neutrinos are everywhere, passing through planets, stars, and our bodies by the trillions every second. Yet these elusive…
At Denmark’s Port of Aalborg, designers cut a retired wind-turbine blade into a curved roof that now shelters bicycles — a second life for the composite piece turbines can’t easily recycle
At the Port of Aalborg in northern Denmark, a section of decommissioned wind-turbine blade sits on steel supports…
German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe | Aerospace industry
A German startup has launched the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, a milestone for…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
In 1983, rhino champion Anna Merz spent her savings to secure 5,000 Kenyan acres; the sanctuary she started grew into Lewa, now sheltering about 245 rhinos | World News
An AI-generated image showing black rhinos moving through the protected landscape of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, where…
Sky Matters: Active research into enduring and complex question
The year 1976 is memorable to those of us of a certain age because it was one of…
Study that argued China’s solar policy hurt birds may have miscounted 2 billion egrets
A study in one of the world’s top scientific journals that concluded China’s policy-driven solar energy expansion was…
James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy’s rarest stars inside the ‘Treasure Chest’ globule — Space photo of the week
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on…
In 2017, a 14-year-old Virginia girl dug a backyard pond for a school project; 9 years later, it has become a thriving wildlife ecosystem
The transformation demonstrates how even relatively small habitat projects can make a difference when they provide food, water,…