New satellite images show Europe’s disappearing rivers due to drought | Climate Crisis News
Drought conditions have worsened across Central and Western Europe since the start of the summer with southern England,…
Titan is the only place besides Earth with stable liquid on its surface, a working weather cycle and complex organic chemistry — and now, according to 2025 NASA research, a plausible mechanism for building the first membrane around a primitive cell, without liquid water involved.
Titan has an unusual way of making an alien landscape feel familiar. Clouds gather. Rain falls. Rivers cut…
Physics says a spacecraft with mass can never reach the speed of light: as it accelerates closer to c, the energy required rises without limit, so light speed isn’t merely difficult to reach — for massive objects, it’s physically unattainable.
A powerful enough engine can make a spacecraft move faster and faster. That familiar sentence contains a trap:…
In 1997, scientists sent cameras down with sperm whales to find the monster hidden in their scars: the giant squid. The footage they wanted never came, but the failed hunt helped point science toward one of the deep ocean’s most elusive animals
Sperm whales come up from the deep wearing evidence. Rings of pale scar tissue across the head and…
Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive
Most galaxies are thought to harbor a supermassive black hole at their center. These enormous objects can weigh…
Solar farm big enough to power 25,000 homes planned for fields in north county Dublin
Shallon Solar Farm Limited, a subsidiary of solar company Grianworks, has applied for planning permission to build an…
In January 1946, eleven years before Sputnik, a US Army radio crew in New Jersey bounced a signal off the Moon and heard it come back 2.5 seconds later, and that echo was the first time anything humans made had touched another world
On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called…
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
Scientists Discover a Bizarre New Way Life Can Make DNA… Without DNA : ScienceAlert
To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use…
Companies Are Bracing Themselves For El Niño’s Ripple Effects
In other words, the potential effects of El Niño over the coming year are both local and specific…
APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in…
In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt sent New Zealand 20 elk for sport, and their hybrid descendants are still at the centre of a conservation debate
A small group of American wapiti, known in the United States as elk, was sent to New Zealand…