AI Takes the controls: First “self-driving” telescope successfully observes the night sky
Artificial intelligence has already transformed fields ranging from healthcare and finance to logistics and autonomous vehicles. Now, AI…
Extreme weather is making work difficult for many people – this is what needs to change
We have experienced several heatwaves in the UK this summer – workers suffering from heat stress is among…
We’ve been eclipsed: NASA photographers share stellar images from this week’s solar event – and there’s at least one Easter egg that’s worth discovering
The 2026 total solar eclipse may have passed but, thanks to NASA photographers updating the space agency’s eclipse…
Cornwall divers rescue sharks trapped in crab pot
He added no-one wanted to see wildlife trapped and fishers did not want to lose equipment. He said:…
Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can quell effects of solar storms, study suggests
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA’s first Artemis moonshot…
New studies portray Amazon as surprisingly resilient, but tipping point looms
Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a…
BlackSky builds Gen-3 satellites ahead of sovereign orders, targeting one-year delivery for government intelligence customers
BlackSky Technology is producing more than 20 Gen-3 satellites, including unallocated spacecraft that could be assigned to future…
A squid pulled from a sperm whale’s stomach during an Antarctic whaling expedition in 1955–56 sat overlooked in scientific collections for nearly 70 years — until researchers realised it wasn’t just a new species, but an entirely new family of oceanic squid no one knew existed.
A preserved squid collected from a sperm whale’s stomach in 1955 or 1956 has turned out to be…
A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy
A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy A faint ribbon of stars in…
Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones over UK wildfires | Wildfires
On Friday at 7pm, Thérèse Coffey was nine miles away from a nuclear power station when her phone…
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…
Teenager pleas guilty to attacking California sea lion in viral video | California
An 18-year-old California man has admitted he kicked a sea lion in a video that went viral recently…