Venus disappears behind the Moon, 14 September 2026. Here’s how to see the lunar occultation
Venus will disappear behind the Moon on 14 September 2026, from 09:30 BST (08:30 UT), in an event…
Do black holes have hidden hair? Scientists are searching
When black holes collide, they create ripples in spacetime. If the black holes have extra matter around them…
The Deadliest Animals In The Ocean
The box jellyfish has a soft, near-invisible body and tentacles that trail like loose shoelaces, and it carries…
Scientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects ‘unlike any they have seen before’
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object – compact binary…
Researchers put cameras in the trees of the second largest rainforest in the world. Here’s what they found
Stretching across the vast Congo Basin in Africa is the second largest rainforest on the planet – and…
York Space revealed as prime contractor for Tomorrow.io weather constellation
WASHINGTON — York Space Systems said Sept. 10 it will build satellites for Tomorrow.io’s planned DeepSky weather-observation constellation…
WVU physicist advances quantum materials research with NSF CAREER award | WVU Today
With support from a prestigious NSF CAREER award, Subhasish Mandal, an assistant professor in the WVU Eberly College…
Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names
Ray Ó Foghlú, head of partnerships and development at Hometree, a nature restoration charity in Ireland, says place…
Researchers picked oyster, mussel and cockle shells off Irish beaches, crushed the 3 kinds of shell into grains, and dropped them into water carrying rare earth metals at concentrations similar to badly polluted industrial runoff. The oyster grains took up as much as roughly 1.5 grams of metal for every gram of shell.
A single gram of crushed oyster shell pulled in up to around 1.5 grams of rare earth metal,…
Can an entire Arctic ecosystem evolve to adapt to the climate crisis? | Alaska
On Alaska’s North Slope, scientists tread carefully across clumps of tussock grasses toward a fast-flowing stream draining the…
World’s first zinc thruster fires in space on maiden attempt
A satellite has fired a Hall-effect thruster fueled by solid zinc in orbit for the first time, giving…
Astronomers used 69 fast radio bursts as cosmic backlights to complete the clearest census yet of the universe’s missing ordinary matter, finding that roughly 76% resides as extremely diffuse ionized gas in the vast spaces between galaxies — while only 9% remains inside galaxies as stars and gas.
The universe’s “missing matter” was never thought to have vanished. Cosmologists could infer how much ordinary, atom-building matter…