Hubble Peers into 13-Billion-Year-Old Globular Cluster
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of NGC 6426, an ancient globular…
Wildfires across Europe forces thousands to flee homes amid ‘powder keg’ dry conditions – The Irish Times
Wildfires raging across southern Europe have forced thousands to flee their homes and prompted officials to ban spectators…
China’s Tianwen-2 Reaches Earth’s Quasi-Moon and Prepares to Grab a Sample
China’s Tianwen-2 probe has reached Kamoʻoalewa, one of seven known quasi-satellites that orbit near Earth. Scientists suspect the…
SharkFest 2026: New Nat Geo Shark Documentaries
Watch Hammerhead Sharks Up Close with Bertie Gregory and more new shark documentaries from National Geographic to celebrate…
Study reveals unexpected movement of drug-delivery swimming robots
One day, tiny swimming robots may travel through the human body to deliver drugs. The medication would target…
Cleaner skies, sizzling summers: How falling pollution may amplify Europe’s heat
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cities from Paris to Prague have sweltered under record-breaking heat waves in recent years.…
On 13 April 2029, a 375-metre asteroid called Apophis will sweep past Earth closer than many telecommunications satellites — and, under clear dark skies, around two billion people across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia may be able to watch it move across the night sky with the naked eye.
On 13 April 2029, an asteroid the size of a large skyscraper, roughly 375 metres across and named…
Snakes that shine like rainbows: 7 iridescent snakes from around the world you need to see to believe
Snakes are frightening slithering reptiles, and one wouldn’t even dream of encountering them in their wildest dreams. These…
Black holes buried in mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth
Mysterious “little red dots” discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried…
Carbon Markets Just Had Their Most Important Moment in Years
For much of the past decade, carbon credits have suffered from a credibility problem. Critics called them greenwashing,…
Katalyst’s satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA’s Swift
NASA has a clear interest in saving the Swift mission. The $500 million observatory’s primary mission is detecting gamma-ray…
What’s the most dangerous animal in Africa? There’s a number of deadly contenders but one is responsible for a humongous million human deaths a year
Well, the most dangerous animal in Africa is not the hippo, as many a pub bore will claim.…