On this day in space! Aug. 16, 1963: Wingless M2-F1 completes 1st glide flight
On Aug. 16, 1963, NASA’s M2-F1 aircraft prototype made its first glide flight. This wingless aircraft kind of…
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture…
What animal has the biggest brain? Clue – it’s 5 times bigger than a human’s
That award for the animal has the biggest brain goes to the sperm whale. The average weight of…
A robot discovered a strange landform beneath the Antarctic ice, and then
The autonomous underwater vehicle Ran explored the area beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf in West Antarctica and discovered…
In 2016, an amateur astronomer testing a new camera captured a supernova brightening up to 70 million light-years away
First discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, NGC 613 is a galaxy which lies in…
How China’s record-breaking hypergravity centrifuge speeds up Earth physics
How China’s record-breaking hypergravity centrifuge speeds up Earth physics – Futura-Sciences August 16, 2026 3 min A giant…
Florida sets record for sea turtle nests but Trump move could stall recovery | Marine life
Wildlife groups in Florida are celebrating record numbers of sea turtle nests this season, but experts warn Donald…
Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
They can start out as underwater volcanoes, take up to 30 million years to form – and are home to about 1 million people
What is an atoll? An atoll is a ring-shaped island (often made up of multiple small islets) with…
Hurricane Lala hammers Hawaii with feet of rain, winds as eyewall brushes Big Island
Hurricane Lala may be pulling away from the Big Island, but Hawaii isn’t in the clear yet. The…
Astronomers find water in the harsh environment near the Milky Way’s black hole — Space photo of the week
A view of the Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F.…