Two asteroids receive unprecedented visits from space probes in a single week | Science
It’s strange how we get used to what was once extraordinary. At the start of July, two spacecraft…
Six miles below the Pacific, with no sunlight and no photosynthesis, a Chinese submersible found thousands of blood-red tubeworms and white clams thriving on leaking methane — the deepest animal ecosystem ever discovered on Earth
On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese…
‘Profound, resigned hopelessness’: people across US and Canada share effects of wildfire smoke | Wildfires
As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires continues to spread across large parts of North America, bringing hazardous…
Beyond the Perseids — 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer
The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the…
“A mutating army of deadly germs” – 8 deadliest bacterial diseases to avoid like the plague
Ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin at St Mary’s Hospital in London in 1928, antibiotics have provided a…
India achieves milestone with launch of first private-sector orbital rocket | Science and Technology News
PM Narendra Modi says successful launch will ‘encourage countless youngsters to dream bigger and innovate fearlessly’. Published On…
Why a Single Sun‑Reflecting Satellite Has Scientists Sounding the Alarm
Live somewhere that doesn’t get much sunlight? That could soon be changing. The FCC has approved a startup’s…
New Black Hole Theory Solves a 50-Year-Old Problem
Illustration of a black hole that is growing in response to an influx of energy. New research from…
Astronauts on the ISS watch 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets a day, and many say the hardest thing to describe back home is how thin the atmosphere looks from above — a bright blue line you could almost rub out with a thumb
The International Space Station circles Earth about once every 90 minutes. That orbital rhythm gives its crew roughly…
China’s Tianwen-1 Captures Rare Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss China’s Tianwen-1…
The Propellantless Spacecraft Technologies That Could Help Us Reach the Stars
A Soyuz-FG rocket launches from “Gagarin’s Start” (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: Bill Ingalls Future spacecraft may travel…
Another reusable rocket? Japan launches, lands RV-X prototype (video)
Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype. The launch —…