An International Team Uncovers What Powers Auroras
The Aurora Borealis and Australis have dazzled and inspired all those who have beheld them since time immemorial.…
the secret lies 1,000 meters beneath your feet and has to do with oil wells and recycled water
From California’s coast to the banks of the Yangtze, engineers are trying something that sounds almost backwards. Instead…
New space station crew eager for Wednesday launch
Two Americans, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut said Sunday they are eager to blast off Wednesday…
Planned launch of 500,000 satellites may blind Hubble forever
Simulations suggest that satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays…
Scientists finally solve a 100-year-old mystery in the air we breathe
Researchers at the University of Warwick have developed a new method that makes it possible to predict how…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires xAI
Elon Musk. (Marc Piasecki / Getty Images file) · Marc Piasecki SpaceX on Monday acquired xAI, the artificial…
Scientists Fired Lasers at Charles Darwin’s Priceless Specimens. Here’s Why. : ScienceAlert
Rows of preserved specimen jars from Charles Darwin’s iconic Galapagos voyage have sat, unopened, in the archives of…
A galaxy looked calm in the first images, but when it was brought into focus it turned out to be a cluster of at least 15 stellar bursts, like cosmic grapes
A galaxy that lived only about 930 million years after the Big Bang looked, at first glance, like…
Deadly, bird-eating insect kills and devours thousands of seabird chicks a year
There is a giant, carnivorous centipedes killing and eating up to 3,700 black-winged petrel chicks annually on a…
Deep heat has guided Earth’s magnetic field for millions of years
Ancient magnetic records have shown that two vast, overheated regions deep inside Earth have guided the planet’s magnetic…
New images capture “footprints” of baby planets around newborn stars, which could be forming in just hundreds of thousands of years
If you have ever looked up at the night sky and wondered when Earth first began to take…
Fears grow for two orcas left to rot in abandoned zoo as they could be crushed
Two lonely whales are in need of ‘urgent’ attention experts warn the pair, who were left deserted at…