Australia to withdraw staff from Macquarie Island due to ‘psychological risk’ of bird flu
The Australian Antarctic Division will launch a mission to extract personnel from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean…
Glowing galaxy with anomalous extra arms photo of the day for Aug. 27, 2026
An image of this spiral galaxy NGC 4258 that combines X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory (seen…
Australia confirms H5N1 in a dolphin for the first time
A common dolphin found in Goolwa on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia tested positive for H5N1 avian…
Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains
Rock glaciers look very different from conventional glaciers. Instead of exposed ice, they resemble sprawling fields of loose…
‘Nature thrives when given a chance’: restored Cheshire wetland now a haven for rare grebe | Birds
A dumping ground for dredgings from the Manchester Ship Canal has become the best place in Britain for…
The Astrological Meaning of August’s Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon in Pisces
The partial lunar eclipse in Pisces occurs on Aug. 28 at 12:12 a.m. ET, and it will impact…
There are an estimated 10 quintillion individual insects alive on Earth at any given moment, according to the Smithsonian Institution — roughly 1.2 billion insects for every person alive today.
Stand still in a field for a minute and picture the insects sharing that patch of ground with…
The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: prepare for more climate-linked disasters | Editorial
Thousands of people in Nepal and Tibet are in desperate need of emergency assistance following Wednesday’s disaster. With…
In 2026, astronomer Samantha Lawler and two colleagues modelled SpaceX’s proposal for one million orbital AI data-centre satellites and found that, if they are launched with the assumed sizes and reflectivity, naked-eye satellites could outnumber visible stars for large portions of the night and year almost everywhere on Earth.
A million satellites is difficult to picture as an orbital system. Aaron Boley, Samantha Lawler and Hanno Rein…
Ancient Lactoferrin Proteins Could Produce New Drugs
In a blast from the past that may prove to be a boon for modern drug discovery, scientists…
With 1 billion kilowatt hours now delivered to its Arctic grid, a nuclear barge finished reloading both reactors for the first time while supplying about 60 percent of its isolated region’s energy
The town of Pevek sits at the very top of Russia, far above the Arctic Circle. About 5,000…
The electronics ‘under the hood’ of space networking
In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews Jeff Janicik, founder and chairman of Innoflight. They discuss Golden Dome,…