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On 12 August 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover pointed its Mastcam-Z camera up into the pale Martian sky and…

Saturn has a second polygon. Astronomers working with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope report a ten-sided wave —…

The mountain gorilla once appeared to be heading towards a future where seeing one in the wild could…

Moa eggshell scattered across the floor is how the cave got its name, and it turned out to…

Those already out and about at 5am this week will be rewarded with a beautiful waning crescent moon…

A thirsty bat sweeps over a pond, listens to the echoes returning from its surface and drops closer…

A developer has used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to run a model of the fruit fly’s 166,700-neuron brain network…

Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many…

Australian brook lamprey. Image Credit: David Moffatt In 2022, Australian ecologist Dr Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo set out to study…

The Milky Way’s expected collision with Andromeda became considerably less certain in June 2025. In a Nature Astronomy…

The hunting strategy that makes Pterasteridae starfish apex predators mirrors the polar bear’s survival playbook almost exactly, and…

Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), known as SpaceX, is ready to explore the cosmos. At least that’s what CEO…

Perseverance filmed Phobos crossing the Sun again on 12 August 2026 — the same potato-shaped moon whose orbit is slowly decaying toward Mars