Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark…
Andromeda is visible from 2.5 million light-years because the light of hundreds of billions of stars blends together. But an Earth-like planet there would be roughly ten billion times fainter than its own star and separated from it by only about 1.3 microarcseconds—far beyond the direct-imaging ability of any existing telescope.
Andromeda can be found without a telescope under a sufficiently dark sky, even though its light has travelled…
Scientists Spot Rare Bigfin Squid More Than 10,000 Feet Deep Off California Coast
Scientists studying an extinct underwater volcano off the California coast were left stunned after they unexpectedly spotted a…
Researchers Discover a Green Hydrogen ‘Goldmine’ Beneath Australia’s Red Dirt : ScienceAlert
The search is on for natural sources of hydrogen that could potentially fast-track humanity to a low-carbon energy…
A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy
After decades of observations, an international effort led by researchers at the University of Queensland’s School of Mathematics…
In the 1850s, pigs brought to Santa Cruz Island became feral; golden eagles drawn by piglets helped drive foxes down 95%, then 5,036 pigs were removed as foxes rebounded to 1,300+
An ambitious conservation project off the coast of California has helped save the endangered Santa Cruz Island fox…
A molecular-hydrogen cloud only 300 light-years away spans roughly 40 full-Moon widths across our sky, yet astronomers did not identify it until 2025. Named Eos, it escaped conventional surveys because they search for molecular hydrogen indirectly through carbon monoxide—and almost all of Eos is CO-dark.
One of the nearest molecular clouds to the Sun hid across a patch of sky about 20 degrees…
A plant in Magdeburg takes 1 old solar panel apart in the order it was built and recovers 98 percent of its weight, where a shredder handling the same panel would turn the silver and silicon into powder
A solar module is a sandwich, and that is the whole difficulty. Glass on the front, cells in…
Five night sky events to look forward to this autumn
Another meteor shower arrives later in November, with the Leonids expected to peak around 17 November. The Leonids…
Inside the mission to save orangutans from raging fires
A team of wildlife workers from YIARI in Indonesia rescue an orangutan and its baby in Kalimantan. (ABC News:…
Astronomers Spotted a ‘Bear’ on Mars : ScienceAlert
On 12 December 2022, an orbiter traveling 251 kilometers (156 miles) above the southern highlands of Mars photographed…
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
A spacecraft that weighed 721.9 kilograms — 1,592 pounds, roughly the mass of a small car — lifted…