SSpace Read More Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catchAugust 21, 2026 OFFBEAT Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches CEO Elon Musk says SpaceX probably won’t…
PPhysics Read More Light travels from the Sun to Earth in just eight minutes, but the journey from the Sun’s core to its surface can take up to 500,000 yearsAugust 21, 2026 The sunlight reaching Earth from the Sun’s visible surface crosses space in about 8 minutes. Before that, however,…
WWildlife Read More Leopard, peacock deaths spark call for transformer safety cover | Hubballi NewsAugust 21, 2026 Pic for representation only Gadag: A recent incident in which a peacock and a leopard were electrocuted at…
SScience Read More Human microbes might be able to survive on the Moon’s South Pole. Here’s what that means for Artemis missionsAugust 21, 2026 As soon as later this year, NASA could begin the development of its lunar base. The early missions…
EEnvironment Read More Aging power grid linked to majority of Greek wildfires: ReportAugust 21, 2026 Greece’s aging power grid is found to be responsible for the majority, or around three-quarters of the area…
SSpace Read More The Biggest Known Galaxy Is 1.7 Million Light-Years, And We Can’t Comprehend The Scale : ScienceAlertAugust 21, 2026 The Universe can pull some wild monkeyshines, especially when it comes to scale. From giant black holes to…
PPhysics Read More Strange Signals Called Long-period Radio Transits Come From Cataclysmic VariablesAugust 21, 2026 Long period radio transients (LPTs) are mysterious signals coming from objects inside our galaxy. They’re highly polarized, coherent…
WWildlife Read More Midway Atoll eradicated invasive rats after Bonin petrels had fallen to fewer than 5,000 nesting pairs; by 2008 the seabird colony had rebounded to more than 135,000 pairsAugust 21, 2026 Black rat eradication restored Midway Atoll’s ecosystem, helping Bonin petrels rebound from fewer than 5,000 to over 135,000…
SScience Read More Pluto has a blue twilight: when New Horizons looked back after its 2015 flyby and saw the dwarf planet backlit by the Sun, its atmospheric haze turned out to scatter sunlight blue — a colour that surprised even the mission’s scientists.August 21, 2026 New Horizons had already passed Pluto when it made one of the flyby’s most revealing observations. The spacecraft…
EEnvironment Read More Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summerAugust 21, 2026 Repeated record-breaking heat waves cooked the European continent this summer, delivering the region’s hottest June on record. A…
SSpace Read More NASA’s Artemis II Crew Set to Receive Congressional Space Medal of HonorAugust 21, 2026 President Donald J. Trump will award each of NASA’s Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of…
PPhysics Read More Final tests for the AMS upgrade before spaceflight – HomeAugust 21, 2026 Suspended in the path of a proton beam from CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) was an unusual target:…