‘The moon looked wrong’: Artemis II mission controller Chris White on taking historic lunar flyby photos from 250,000 miles away
On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA‘s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the…
When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, scientists aboard a nearby research vessel sailed to the exposed seafloor and found a thriving forest of giant sponges, octopuses, and sea spiders that had survived for centuries without sunlight
The most important part of the Antarctic iceberg story is not the iceberg. It is what appeared after…
An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left behind
The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was…
Beavers are emerging sooner in spring amid warmer weather
The most anticipated day of my year is “BDay” — the first day when beavers are spotted on…
Scientists Uncover New Plant Species Hidden in Plain Sight for More Than 100 Years
Phebalium banyabba. Credit: Paul Sheringham A plant misidentified for more than a century has been named as a…
UK couple found burned and semi-conscious in Almería amid Spanish wildfires | Wildfires
A British couple have been found badly burned and semi-conscious in a Spanish ravine amid deadly wildfires that…
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tissue bioprinted off Earth for 1st time ever
A company just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called…
Tourist Seriously Injured After Bison Tosses Him 8 Feet Into The Air At Yellowstone National Park
A tourist was seriously injured after a bull bison charged at him and tossed him about eight feet…
An octopus has three hearts, blue blood and around 500 million neurons, two thirds of them not in its head but spread through its arms, so each arm can taste, decide and act almost on its own.
An octopus looks like one animal, but its nervous system is arranged more like a living network. The…
Super El Nino will hit women the hardest, charity warns: ‘We should be very worried’
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
In 2026, the FCC authorized radio operations for Reflect Orbital’s first 18-metre space mirror, a single demonstration for a proposed 50,000-satellite system that one astronomy model says could raise the natural night-sky background by 200% to 300%
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized radio operations for Eärendil-1, a demonstration satellite built around a reflector measuring…
Scientists uncover secrets of tiny Andean mouse living on the world’s highest peaks
WASHINGTON, July 11 — At first glance, it’s just a rodent. But the Andean leaf-eared mouse is,…