This chaotic 2,000-pound seal has returned to sea – but leaves behind a conundrum
Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this…
In June 2026, the James Webb telescope read the dawn and dusk skies of WASP-121b separately and found one side hotter and stripped of water, the other cooler and possibly cloudy, on a world where it can rain liquid rock
The James Webb Space Telescope has tracked how the atmosphere of a distant gas giant changes from longitude…
South Africa telescope catches faint pulse from Blue Eye Pulsar after decades of silence
For decades, astronomers thought the Blue Eye Pulsar, a rare neutron star in the middle of a supernova…
Earth’s largest waterfall is not Niagara or Victoria Falls—it lies entirely underwater in the Denmark Strait, where cold, dense water cascades roughly 3,500 metres down the ocean floor, a drop more than three times the height of Angel Falls.
The largest waterfall on Earth has no viewing platform, no mist rising into sunlight, and no tourist boats…
A Rapidly-Growing Black Hole in a Nearby Galaxy Could Provide a Window Into the Early Universe.
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) recently made a…
The Andean long-eared mouse, the mammal that holds the key to surviving at altitudes of more than 22,000 feet | Science
At the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano, on the border between Chile and Argentina, there is only rock,…
A Hidden Crisis: Why Millions Are Burning Plastic Just To Survive
A global study has revealed that burning plastic in households across many developing countries may be far more…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hauls Starlink satellites to orbit
A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books. A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg…
NASA satellites are watching Earth’s newest island rise from the sea
Oceanographers often point out that scientists have mapped the surfaces of the Moon and Mars in greater detail…
Heat is here to stay: Irish cities urgently need more trees
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We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons carried into deep space by planets expelled during supernova explosions could preserve subsurface oceans for billions of years — heated not by sunlight, but by the repeated gravitational flexing of their orbits.
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit…
Australia’s huntsman fastest spider recorded in new study
Anyone who has experienced a brown huntsman run at them knows these spiders are fast, but a new…