SSpace Read More Alphabet Counts the Ka-Ching With SpaceX ReturnsAugust 16, 2026 Alphabet Counts the Ka-Ching With SpaceX Returns – Moby THE GIST Our analysts just identified a stock with…
SScience Read More We tend to picture glaciers as slow rivers of frozen water, but the Byrd Glacier in Antarctica drains an area larger than California through a gap in the Transantarctic Mountains at up to 800 metres a year, dragging enough ice to raise global sea level measurably if it ever fully releasedAugust 16, 2026 Byrd Glacier sits at the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and moves. Fast. Radar and satellite…
SSpace Read More Skyfall Mars helicopters are getting a major antenna upgrade with ground-penetrating radarAugust 16, 2026 NASA develops a flexible, fabric-based antenna for its next Mars SkyFall helicopters that will test for frozen water…
SScience Read More A SpaceX rocket stage launched in January 2025 drifted for more than 18 months before crashing into the Moon at 8,700 km/h, carving a crater tens of metres wide — while newer lunar launches are sending spent stages safely onward into orbit around the Sun instead.August 16, 2026 A roughly four-tonne machine built on Earth ended an uncontrolled 18-month journey by striking the Moon on 5…
SSpace Read More NASA is flying a modified U-2 spy plane to study how wildfires can create stormsAugust 16, 2026 NASA is using a modified version of the U-2 spy plane, created during the Cold War, to study…
SScience Read More New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apartAugust 16, 2026 SpaceX keeps setting spaceflight records. Elon Musk‘s company launches far more frequently than any other outfit, and it…
SSpace Read More Water and Dust Found Surviving near Milky Way’s Central Black HoleAugust 16, 2026 Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 — a bloated giant…
PPhysics Read More Iranian researchers open new path to studying particles containing top quarksAugust 16, 2026 Iranian researchers at the University of Tehran have opened a new theoretical path for studying a largely unexplored…
SScience Read More Researchers challenge long-held theory on how Earth withstands extreme space weatherAugust 16, 2026 Scientists have long treated Earth’s magnetic field as a sturdy defense against the Sun’s most violent storms. New…
SSpace Read More Woman Journeys to a Beach to Watch Total Solar Eclipse With Her One True Love: ClaudeAugust 16, 2026 Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Where…
WWildlife Read More New wildlife film follows water vole in Welsh pondAugust 16, 2026 Water voles are an endangered species in the UK. Photo by Natalie Clements Abby Neve A new cinematic…
SScience Read More Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.August 16, 2026 A night-migrating robin can choose a seasonally appropriate direction inside a featureless cage even when stars and landmarks…