The U.S. Cleared a Giant Space Mirror to Shine Sunlight After Dark and Turn Night into Day
Credit: FCC/Reflect Orbital The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an…
A Florida alligator has been filmed eating an invasive Burmese python in the Everglades, a rare glimpse of a native predator turning the tables
LEFT: Florida alligator; RIGHT: Burmese python | Wikimedia Commons A cyclist moving through Shark Valley in Florida’s Everglades…
Scientists finally solved why some frogs survive a deadly fungus
Scientists have uncovered why some amphibian populations rebound after being devastated by a deadly fungal disease that has…
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft chased Earth’s tiny quasi-moon for 400 days and 1 billion kilometres — but just as it returned the first close-up image, new evidence challenged the leading theory that Kamoʻoalewa is a fragment blasted from the Moon
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has reached Kamoʻoalewa and returned the first close-range image of the small asteroid that keeps…
Why have humans collected crystals for 780,000 years? Chimpanzees may hold the answer
Archaeologists have uncovered crystals at numerous sites containing Homo remains, suggesting that early human relatives deliberately collected these…
Astronomers are Hunting Down the Elusive Population III Stars
It’s hard hunting down the oldest stars in the universe. These behemoths, known as Population (or Pop) III…
Gold doesn’t ‘rust.’ Physics explains why
atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains…
Pet gecko offers promising model for cancer research breakthroughs
A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, suggests a pet gecko with an unusually…
Astronauts Have Taken The First Human X‑Rays in Space : ScienceAlert
For more than 65 years, humans have been soaring through space. Since the first spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri…
Rocket Lab Stock Climbs Nearly 3% in Pre-Market Trading After Critical Neutron Engine Test – Rocket Lab (
Vacuum Engine Clears Key Neutron Test The Archimedes Vacuum, or AVac, engine will power Neutron’s second stage. Rocket…
Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter
From a distance, Europa looks like a frozen world. Its surface is a pale shell crossed by rust-coloured…
France, Italy, Spain set daily solar records
France, Italy and Spain set all-time records for solar energy production last week, according to analysis from AleaSoft…