Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected
It took seven months to confirm that NASA’s Opportunity rover was dead. The U.S. space agency’s little robotic…
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
As the UK has baked through extreme heatwaves this summer, the same question has echoed across television studios…
NASA is sending 2 probes to the moon to test complex ‘three-body orbits’
NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft are…
Astronomers Measure the Long Reach of a Quasar
There are a number of things in the Universe that could wipe out life as we know it,…
Moon bear takes first steps in sunshine after years on illegal bile farm in Laos
Sunlight was something Jing Lee, a young moon bear in Laos, had never experienced during years of confinement…
Suns Rays Erode Mars Atmosphere
Our Sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars…
Tunisian wildfires expose failing infrastructure, community vulnerabilities | Agriculture
Sakiet Sidi Youssef, Tunisia – Smoke still lingers over the blackened hills surrounding the village of el-Gol near…
NASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginia
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, Friday, providing a critical resource for the…
Meet the marine iguana: The world’s only sea-going lizard that sneezes salt and shrinks to survive |
PC: By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada Most reptiles never venture beyond the shore. The marine iguana built its…
ESCRT-III proteins play an unexpected role in protecting DNA bridges during cell division
Every time a cell divides, it must accurately copy and distribute its DNA between two new cells. However,…
China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs
While recycling is a mathematically obvious response to the finite, non-renewable nature of many resources, the economic math…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation…