Earth-like LHS 1140b May Feature The First Atmosphere Found On Exoplanet
Finding another planet outside of our solar system that can comfortably be called ‘Earth-like’ is one of those…
The Sky Today on Tuesday, July 21: Catch Titan near Saturn
Back to Article List There’s a great chance this morning to view Saturn’s largest and brightest moon, Titan,…
Plants are heating up faster than the air around them – and climate models are missing it
For decades, climate scientists have warned that rising global temperatures pose a significant risk to human health. Climate…
The Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers are about to peak
The last week of July 2026 is a meteor shower lover’s dream. Not one but two meteor showers…
The James Webb Space Telescope spent nearly eight hours staring into NGC 4696, a galaxy 145 million light-years away, and watched a river of cool gas pour into an 800-light-year disk spinning at 600 kilometers per second, feeding the supermassive black hole on a self-renewing loop
Deep inside a galaxy 145 million light-years away, the James Webb Space Telescope has watched cool gas pour…
Florida confirms Burmese python breeding hotspot outside the Everglades, and wildlife experts fear it could be the start of a bigger spread | World News
For years, efforts to track invasive Burmese pythons in Florida have centred on the Everglades, where the giant…
IHI explores Kuva hyperspectral satellites for Japan’s multi-sensor constellation
TAMPA, Fla. — Japan’s IHI is considering adding next-generation hyperspectral satellites from Finnish startup Kuva Space to its…
Giant, milky-green vortex swirls across massive ‘cryptodepression’ lake in Southern Europe — Earth from space
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Lake Skadar, Montenegro and Albania [42.201087364, 19.303135741] What’s in the photo? A giant,…
Earth’s magnetic shield slows the solar wind hitting the Moon
The Moon has been getting pelted by solar wind for billions of years, but here’s what nobody could…
New quantum gravity theory links entropy, dark energy, and life
A new theoretical study offers a possible way to address one of modern physics’ most difficult puzzles: how…
The Kessler Syndrome predicts that a single collision in low Earth orbit could trigger a cascade rendering entire altitudes unusable for generations — and current satellite density has already crossed the threshold the model warned about in 1978
In 1978, NASA astrophysicist Donald Kessler published a paper arguing that once the density of objects in low…
In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years. Voyager 1 and 2 are now the only human-made objects in interstellar space, still operating, still transmitting, funded by a team of engineers some of whom have worked on the mission for nearly 50 years
NASA launched Voyager 2 on 20 August 1977 and Voyager 1 on 5 September. The spacecraft were built…