New Solar System Models Show Earth Is No Fluke
Over the last three decades, computer models of forming planetary systems have gone from being fairly crude replications…
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show | Rewilding
Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of…
Astronomers found a ‘mega Earth’ that shouldn’t exist. This alien world is breaking the rules of planet building
When astronomers peer into space to observe planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System – known as exoplanets…
University from world’s second-richest country named global best for optics
It achieved a perfect subject score of 100, ranking ahead of China’s Zhejiang University in second place and…
In 1944, 29 reindeer were left on a remote island in Alaska, decades later, they had eaten themselves into extinction
What happened to the reindeer on St. Matthew Island is a classic story of wildlife boom and bust.…
Two of Neptune’s tiny inner moons contain clay minerals that could not have formed on worlds so small and cold — suggesting they’re built from the exposed interiors of much larger moons shattered when the captured Kuiper Belt world Triton tore through Neptune’s original satellite system billions of years ago.
The important part of the clay found at Neptune is not simply that it is unusual. It is…
Panama Canal cuts shipping over El Niño-fuelled drought
The Panama Canal will reduce shipping volumes from next month because of a drought fueled by the El…
Astronomers announced in January 2026 that they had found a 710-metre asteroid — nearly eight football fields across — spinning once every 1.88 minutes. A normal rubble-pile asteroid should tear itself apart at anything close to that speed, meaning 2025 MN45 must have internal strength comparable to solid rock.
Somewhere in the main asteroid belt, a body estimated to be 710 metres wide completes a full turn…
Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays
A decades-old puzzle in nuclear physics has centered on a strange question: why do some atomic nuclei release…
Rhossi, A Rare Sea Turtle Defies Odds, Recovers After 5,000-Mile Journey Across The Atlantic
A rare sea turtle named Rhossi has stunned wildlife experts by surviving an extraordinary 5,000-mile journey across the…
A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together
Researchers at Monash University have predicted an unusual new form of quantum matter that could overturn long-held assumptions…
Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before the drought
Imagine turning on your kitchen faucet and nothing comes out. Not for an hour, but for two full…