Everything you need to know about how to see the solar eclipse next week
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE celestial event will be visible across Ireland on 12 August: a near-total eclipse of the…
Operation Beluga — or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving
Credit: Library of Congress collection. The Soviet Union now belongs largely to memory and history books, and many…
‘Panda of the insect world’: the moscardón bumblebee creates buzz for invertebrate of the year | Environment
We all love bumblebees. Not only are they beautiful, busy and social, they perform pollination services that are…
In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as visitors “from planet Earth”
The photo left behind by the astronaut | Wikimedia Commons Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left something deeply…
In 1976, a 26-year-old biologist camped alone beneath a 35-foot artificial eagle nest: One chick she raised went on to father around 70 more
AI REPRESENTATION: The goal was to use a technique known as hacking, in which young birds are raised…
Perseverance Nears Mars Driving Record at 45 km, Space Brief 9 Aug 2026
Top Stories Perseverance Rover About to Break All-Time Mars Driving Record NASA’s Perseverance rover will surpass 45.16 km…
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis | Oil
Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as…
Neptune sits more than a billion kilometres farther from the Sun, yet parts of Uranus’s atmosphere fall to minus 224 degrees Celsius and become colder — a reversal scientists associate with the strange planet releasing remarkably little heat from its own interior
Neptune orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 4.5 billion kilometres. Uranus is closer, at roughly…
In 2017, Antigua and Barbuda removed over 6,000 rats and starving goats from Redonda; by 2019, vegetation rose over 20-fold and ground lizards eightfold
For years, Redonda looked less like a Caribbean paradise and more like a barren volcanic outcrop. Its steep…
Scientists watch electrons assemble and reassemble in real time
A new experiment offers scientists an unprecedented look at how different electronic phases emerge, disappear, and re-form inside…
Researchers mapped more than 100 lakes across 1,000 kilometres of Brazil and Uruguay; the network could detect ecosystem stress before irreversible damage
Published in the journal One Ecosystem, the research provides the first systematic assessment of the Southern American Coastal…
Rocket Lab (RKLB) Won a Major Space Force Contract. Now It Has to Prove Neutron
The Pentagon Is Betting on a Rocket That Hasn’t Flown Yet Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) continues to strengthen…