Musk's SpaceX to build $100bn launch facility in Louisiana – BBC
Musk’s SpaceX to build $100bn launch facility in Louisiana BBCSpaceX plans to build $100bn rocket complex in Louisiana RTE.ieSpaceX commits…
Ancient proteins revived to inspire new antimicrobial treatments
University of Oregon biologists have resurrected prehistoric proteins up to 160 million years old that carry natural antimicrobial…
Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say
Whenever there’s a series of destructive or notable earthquakes, scientists get asked the same question: are earthquakes becoming…
Webb has produced the highest-resolution wide-area dark-matter map yet—more than twice as sharp as Hubble’s earlier view—using distortions in roughly 250,000 galaxies to expose previously unresolved clumps and filaments within a field containing nearly 800,000 galaxies.
The blue web spread across Webb’s new COSMOS image is not a photograph of dark matter. No telescope…
Tongan government investigating the capsize of whale watching boat
Tonga’s government is investigating after a boat carrying more than a dozen whale watchers capsized in rough seas…
New Simulations Show How Galactic Centers Grow Together
Understanding the formation and evolution of galactic centers is a major challenge facing astrophysicists. For some time, astronomers…
Scientists warn a catastrophic climate “extreme of extremes” is becoming more likely
In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave…
Propulsion is having a moment
In this episode, SpaceNews Mike Gruss interviews Kevin Lausten, CEO of Morpheus Space, at the 2026 Small Satellite…
Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid
Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance,…
Rare barn owl births celebrated in Co Fermanagh
Conservationists are celebrating the birth of a “bounty of barn owl chicks” in Northern Ireland. Two barn owl…
After two decades in which standard cosmology favoured endless expansion, a Cornell-led team has calculated that one model consistent with recent dark-energy hints would halt cosmic expansion in 11 billion years and produce a Big Crunch roughly 20 billion years from now.
The universe is expanding faster today than it did in the past. That observation does not guarantee it…
From nightlife to life at night: cities must stay open later to beat the rising heat
Summer in Europe is normally cause for celebration. Not this one, however, which will rank as one of…