ESA Awards ispace €65M Contract to Build and Deliver MAGPIE Rover to the Moon
Credit: ispace ESA has awarded a contract to Luxembourg-based ispace-Europe to complete the development of the MAGPIE lunar…
Japan’s orphaned monkey sensation Punch to celebrate his 1st birthday
ICHIKAWA, Japan (AP) — Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by…
Venus may be tearing itself apart from within
Venus is one of the most hostile worlds in the solar system. Surface temperatures reach several hundred degrees…
France and Spain race to control wildfires as suburbs of Bordeaux begin evacuation – live | Wildfires
Evacuations begin for some of Bordeaux’s suburbs French authorities evacuated thousands of people from suburbs near Bordeaux on…
We tend to imagine the habitable zone as a narrow ring around a star, but icy moons have transformed that picture. Far beyond the reach of life-sustaining sunlight, vast oceans may remain liquid beneath their frozen surfaces—warmed by the constant gravitational flexing of the giant planets they orbit.
The picture most of us were given at school was wonderfully simple. Put a star in the middle,…
How does a moon 1.4 billion kilometres from the Sun end up with rivers, rain and lakes, but not a single drop of water in any of them?
I had never noticed how completely I equated weather with water until I began reading about Titan. Rain…
Sand battery: Finland’s radical answer to a renewable energy headache
The industrial-scale sand battery in Finland’s Pornainen can cover almost one month of the town’s heating demands in…
Total Solar Eclipse Sets Up Stunning Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
Topline One of the rarest combinations of celestial events in years is now less than three weeks away.…
In 1850s, house sparrows were introduced to North America to control insects, but the tiny birds quickly spread, became a common sight and turned into one of the continent’s most widespread invasive species
The house sparrow is probably one of the easiest birds to ignore. You see them everywhere. They hop…
Four dead stars have been confirmed within 65 light-years of Earth, hidden for decades in the glare of the brighter red dwarfs they orbit
Four white dwarfs, the burned-out cores left when Sun-like stars die, have been directly confirmed for the first…
Watch: SpaceX's successful test flight and splashdown for Starship – BBC
Watch: SpaceX’s successful test flight and splashdown for Starship BBCSpaceX will now try to launch critical Starship Flight 13…
Deep inside polar craters on Mercury, sunlight has never once fallen — and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft confirmed in 2012 that those permanently shadowed floors hold ancient water ice, sitting metres from terrain hot enough to melt lead
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. At its equator in daytime, the surface can reach about…