BALLS on the moon: China set to launch Africa’s 1st lunar science mission in 2029
China’s Chang’e-8 moon lander mission scheduled for 2029 could send Africa’s first space exploration mission to the lunar…
Scientists create an “electron lighthouse” with laser light
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a semiconductor device that uses laser light to direct the…
Sperm whales blow bubbles to sleep floating vertically
Like humans, most whales sleep horizontally. Sperm whales however hang vertically in tight groups for short 10 to…
Live updates: France issues heat warnings in wildfire-hit areas, as at least 63,000 evacuated near Madrid
Hundreds of thousands of people across France and Spain have been evacuated from their homes in recent days,…
Amendment 68: New Opportunity: D.8 Habitable Worlds Observatory Precursor Science Investigations
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a large-aperture ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared observatory concept recommended by the National Academies of Science,…
There’s a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools life-detection hardware in precisely the way Mars does, so NASA spent four field seasons rehearsing a rover mission on it
For four years, an instrument station in the hyperarid core of Chile’s Atacama Desert logged one rain event.…
Environmental rules sidelined when inconvenient – The Irish Times
Sir, – In reference to the article Emergency laws will bypass planning process (July 25th), the Government plans…
Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too.…
Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park
Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al./Springer Nature In the icy waters of Northeast Greenland, scientists…
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star’s elusive companion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover…
People trapped in shopping centre after Japan quake
“Many people” were trapped inside a shopping centre damaged in a major earthquake in southwestern Japan, emergency services…
Elon Musk Says ‘I Will Not Forget About Mars,’ Reaffirms SpaceX’s Multiplanetary Vision – SpaceX (NASDAQ:
Musk Rejects Claims He Abandoned Mars Musk said he had always understood that dangers originating on Earth could…