What did astronomers find when they aimed a telescope at a patch of sky that looked completely empty and left it there for ten days?
The short answer is: galaxies. Not one or two, and not a scattering of nearby stars, but thousands…
Coral Reef Long Presumed Dead Is Rediscovered ‘Teeming with Life’ Off Coast of Africa
– credit, Gérard Zinzindohoué via SWNS A coral reef long presumed dead has been rediscovered “teeming with life”…
We assumed the Moon was a geologically dead world, but Smithsonian scientists mapping its surface in early 2026 found more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges — the Moon is still shrinking, still cracking, and still shaking
The Moon does stillness unusually well. It has no weather to soften its craters, no oceans to erase…
China Wants to Slam a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid at Mach 26
Following the success of NASA’s DART mission, Chinese researchers are planning a new planetary defense test that they…
Quantum Gravity May Be Far Less Quantum Than Physicists Expected
Physicists have long assumed that uniting quantum mechanics with gravity would require spacetime itself to behave quantum mechanically.…
Wildlife photographer Mitchell Burns breaks the internet
Move over Robert Irwin, because there’s a new khaki clad hero capturing hearts across the nation after trading…
A Stray SpaceX Rocket Will Crash Into the Moon Next Month. Here’s What You Should Know
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has been stuck in a highly elliptical orbit for…
How will Australia’s emergency services cope if satellites go down? With a sextant and a street directory | Australia news
Australia’s emergency services and military personnel are being trained to read paper maps, navigate without GPS support and…
Elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa Park are being born tuskless at rates approaching 33% — a genetic signature of 15 years of civil-war ivory hunting that the population is now passing to its daughters
In the floodplains of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, roughly a third of the female elephants born after the…
VR Distorts Body Perception, Study Reveals
A new study from the University of Toronto finds that people perceive their bodies as larger in virtual…
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland, where cold water plunges more than three kilometres down the seafloor at 3.5 million cubic metres per second
The surface of the Denmark Strait gives no sign of a three-kilometre drop below. Between Greenland and Iceland,…
The Milky Way Flipped its Disk Billions of Years Ago
The Milky Way is ancient, and its first stars formed shortly after the Big Bang. It’s been through…