Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy
SCIENCE Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble NASA has performed…
T rex fossil ‘Gus’ sells for $50.1m at New York auction, setting new record
A vast, fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Gus sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday for $50.1m with…
Uisce Éireann defends hotline for people to report ‘non-essential’ use of water – The Irish Times
Margaret Attridge, head of water operations at Uisce Éireann, has defended the introduction of a hotline where people…
The James Webb Space Telescope found tiny “little red dots” that looked like impossibly compact galaxies — but astronomers now suspect many may be “black hole stars,” young black holes wrapped in gas so dense that the material falling into them produces a star-like glow
The first deep images from the James Webb Space Telescope contained a population that astronomers had not expected…
Astronomers Discover Four New White Dwarfs in Solar Neighborhood
Using near-UV spectroscopic data from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers…
Confused about the solar eclipse and whether you’ll see it? Here’s our location guide for North America and Europe
One of the biggest talking points of summer 2026 is undoubtedly the solar eclipse occurring on August 12.…
An Ancient Stellar Passage Altered the Orbits of Comets We See Today
A star’s passage near our solar system may have sent a hail of comets our way. It’s strange…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Super Heavy booster rolled back for final checkouts
2026-07-14T14:30:12.720Z Super Heavy booster moved back to hangar (Image credit: SpaceX) Following a static fire engine test last…
Relativistic effects reshape triple bonds in heavy atoms study proves
Triple bonds take on a very different shape in heavier atoms where relativistic quantum effects are at play,…
US-Russian crew blast off for 8-month stint on the International Space Station
MOSCOW — A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off successfully Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station.…
‘Nowhere left for us to run’: Same wild elephant keeps returning to village to kill four members of a family over 14 years
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Honeycomb structures spotted on Mars photo of the day for July 14, 2026
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity spotted these “honeycomb” structures on Mars. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted…