A “Smart Ruler” Could Help Swarms of Space Telescopes Image Exoplanets
We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image…
Scientists have filmed a rare 125-million-year-old goblin shark alive in its natural deep-sea habitat for the first time, revealing a new depth record and a wider Pacific range
Goblin shark near Tonga Trench (2024). Credit: Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center and Inkfish For the…
Take a trip to the turquoise waters of the Bahamas (from space) photo of the day for July 9, 2026
Sandbars and waves of rippling sand dunes can be seen from space amongst the turquoise ocean in the…
US chemical accidents rising as Trump rolls back protections, report finds | Trump administration
The number of US chemical accidents is rising just as the Trump administration guts protections against the disasters,…
SpaceX Going Public Is Not a Reason to Abandon Rocket Lab
Space Exploration Technologies’ (SPCX +0.39%) initial public offering has dramatically increased investor attention around space stocks. One that…
TIFR Hyderabad researchers reveal why some glasses break suddenly while others deform smoothly
If a liquid is cooled slowly till its freezing point, it becomes a crystal where the constituent particles…
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Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals | IUCN red list of endangered species
Life has colonised every corner of the planet by evolving ingenious survival strategies but these are increasingly being…
UAE’s Orbitworks is putting a homegrown satellite constellation into orbit
In recent years, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has racked up impressive off-planet achievements, from sending an astronaut…
America just lowered the final 110-ton coil into a 1,000-ton magnet as tall as a five-story building, threading it into a gap with two inches of clearance on one side, and its builder says the finished stack packs enough force to lift an aircraft carrier six feet out of the water
KeysQuestions4Explore4 General Atomics just completed the most powerful pulsed superconducting magnet ever built, and the numbers behind it…
Tiny snails have a rain-powered trick that hides them from birds
While octopuses and cuttlefish are famous for changing their appearance, a pair of tiny tree snails has been…
Returning astronauts describe pain in the soles of the feet and lower back within days of landing — the spine suddenly forced to support half the body’s weight again after months of weightlessness
When NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returned from his record-breaking 371-day mission aboard the International Space Station in September…