We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns
Cataclysmic solar storms may be rare, but they do happen. And unlike the legendary 1859 Carrington Event—which knocked…
Expert explains why it’s ‘unusual’ a sevengill shark was involved in Bruny Island attack
Daryl McPheeI think it’s a very isolated event. If I was in Tasmania, I wouldn’t be particularly concerned…
Faintest Exoplanet Ever Imaged Was in Archives for 11 Years
Astronomers have directly imaged the faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth, a gas giant called Beta Pictoris d…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents
Spirit’s right-front wheel stopped turning on 13 March 2006, more than two Earth years after the rover reached…
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond…
The mysterious hum heard around the world may finally have an explanation
Do you sometimes notice a deep buzzing or humming noise that seems to have no identifiable source? If…
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart),…
Why a T rex skeleton selling for $50m is damaging science – The Times
Why a T rex skeleton selling for $50m is damaging science The TimesT. rex could become most expensive fossil…
Mobile planetarium to bring the stars to you thanks to R1.3m donation
A travelling planetarium backed by a R1.3 million donation will bring immersive space science and VR experiences…
‘Nutty Narrows’ has company: Duvall joins Washington state’s squirrel bridge club
The first squirrel bridge to be installed in the world resides in Longview, Wash. Community members in King…
Scientists studied how animals survive winter and found fruit flies rebuild their biological clock into a separate seasonal mode
Seasonal gene switch locks fruit flies in winter mode Scientists studying how animals survive the winter have discovered…