‘Highly explosive’ whale Timmy to be towed out to sea
Published on 21/05/2026 – 11:00 GMT+2•Updated 11:25 A dead humpback whale stranded off the Danish island of Anholt…
NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather
On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase…
Risk of snakebites increasing as reptiles adapt to changing world, says study | Snakes
The risk of snakebites is increasing across the world as reptiles shift their habitats to cope with rising…
Satellites transforming night across almost the entire planet
SpaceX launched its first 60 satellites for Starlink back in 2019, the beginning of its satellite internet “constellation.”…
Bureau formed to manage invasive species in Ireland
A new partnership has been launched with the aim of strengthening Ireland’s approach to managing invasive species. The…
This exoplanet weather forecast by the James Webb Space Telescope calls for sandy skies and a clear (alien) sunset
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with…
Webb Telescope Detects Cloudy Mornings And Clear Nights On Alien World
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…
The environmental and climate benefits of a circular economy | Publications
BriefingPublished 19 May 2026Modified 18 May 2026 ImageAndreas Rutsche, Well with Nature/EEA This briefing estimates the potential environmental…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024 NASA had to repair it by remotely moving pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip — a software patch sent into interstellar space and confirmed nearly two days later.
Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard…
A red sky frightened medieval Japan, and buried trees now reveal the solar storm behind it
Tree rings have become one of science’s best tools for tracking ancient solar storms. When the Sun hurls…
Circular economy offers the EU win-win on environment and economy | Press releases
Press releasePublished 19 May 2026 Imageudmila Miklošová, Environment&Me 2025 / EEA Stepping up a circular economy offers the European Union the potential…
Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again
NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space…