The mysterious golden orb found deep in the ocean is finally identified after two years
When an ROV encounters something unrecognizable on the seafloor, the working assumption is that the sample is alive.…
Europe plans reusable orbital spaceplane for post-ISS missions
Dassault Aviation and OHB announced on 11th May that they are partnering to propose to the European Space…
A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter
Dark matter is believed to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet scientists still cannot…
MIDAS platform accelerates protein engineering through rapid PCR-based screening
Proteins are critical to life – and to industry. There are countless proteins that could be engineered to…
The crescent Moon meets Venus and Jupiter this week – and the show starts tonight. Here’s how to see it
Can you see a bright star beside the crescent Moon tonight? That’s either Venus or Jupiter, depending on…
Antarctic glacier collapses at record speed as Hektoria retreats 15 miles in just 15 months
Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier underwent an astonishing collapse between early 2022 and spring 2023, retreating at a pace rarely…
Endangered monkey bouncing back in Vietnam
EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing…
Elon Musk Will Probably Become The World’s First Trillionaire Next Month Thanks To SpaceX’s Enormous IPO
For most of human history, wealth was measured in land, armies, ships, palaces, mines, and monarchies. Then capitalism…
TESS Data Reveals 27 New Planet Candidates in Binary Systems
You’re doing some late afternoon work on the habitat as part of humanity’s first exoplanet settlement, but the…
Microplastics Are Swirling Around in the Atmosphere, Where They Might Be Contributing to Climate Change
Airborne plastic particles, particularly colorful ones, absorb more sunlight than they reflect, which can heat the surrounding air,…
The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate
The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021,…
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil | Wildlife
The banana skins were an ominous sign. As was the branch that had been broken off to get…