DC drought designation lifted after recent soaking rains
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows encouraging progress: DC and much of the Interstate 95 corridor are no…
NASA has an idea about how newly-discovered 'little red dots' behave in the universe – Earth.com
NASA has an idea about how newly-discovered ‘little red dots’ behave in the universe Earth.com‘Little red dots’ may be…
Simons Foundation Funds 12 Targeted Math and Physics Research Groups
As part of its mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, the…
The Wildlife You’re Most Likely To Die From In A National Park
Given their millions of visits each year, fatal wildlife encounters are statistically rare in America’s national parks. But…
Pluto’s Famous Glacial Heart Has Been Secretly Leaking Liquid Nitrogen
Odd surface patterns on Pluto hinted to astronomers that, sometime in the past—quite possibly not that long ago—liquid…
Falling river levels reveal sunken ship in Cork after weeks of drought
It comes as recent heatwaves reveal historic sights across Europe 14:49, 06 Aug 2026Updated 18:25, 06 Aug 2026…
SpaceX’s 10 GW Nvidia Vera Rubin Bet: The Compute Landlord Thesis Scales to $100 Billion
SpaceX has set a new ceiling for AI infrastructure. During its inaugural earnings call as a public company…
Mercury Wave Made With 20 Vials Suspended From Springs
Photographer and former radio astronomer Marcel Clemens suspended 20 tiny vials containing slightly different masses of mercury from…
Norway records ‘highly unusual’ reindeer deaths
Norwegian authorities reported more than a dozen unexplained reindeer deaths in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, considered…
Fluffy meshes clean up microplastics big and small
Pieces of plastic ranging from nanometers to millimeters in size are amassing in oceans and fresh water. Removing…
Europa Clipper is already in space, travelling 1.8 billion miles toward Jupiter’s moon Europa, where a subsurface ocean holds more water than every ocean on Earth combined — it arrives April 2030 to ask whether anything is alive inside
Europa Clipper is no longer a spacecraft waiting on a launch pad. NASA launched it on 14 October…
Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing satellite after 5-week delay (video, photos)
A Japanese Earth-observing satellite got to orbit early this morning (Aug. 6), five weeks later than originally planned.…