Inside the High-Tech Effort to Keep Satellites Alive
A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending jetpacks on…
Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a saltwater ocean that may contain more than twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined, yet a new measurement puts 29 kilometres of solid ice above it, a barrier taller than three Mount Everests stacked end to end
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean hidden inside it may hold more than twice as…
Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For Aug. 12’s Solar Eclipse
Topline It’s time to find your old solar eclipse glasses from the “Great North American Eclipse” on April…
Scientists found that Japanese horseshoe bats living together in crowded colonies solve a noisy sonar problem by gradually shifting their echolocation calls to match each other’s frequency
If many bats are sending out similar sound waves at the same time, their signals can overlap. (National…
How Long Could You Survive in Space?
A person who ended up in outer space without any protection would probably lose consciousness in as little…
Overnight Science News: The serendipitous discovery of a cosmic collision crater
Tonight’s edition focuses on easy reading science stories. There’s only one dire climate chaos wildfire report and it’s…
Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops”
Humans and every other vertebrate may share an astonishingly strange ancestor: a tiny creature with a single eye…
July full Moon: How and when to see the 2026 Buck Moon
Based on current forecast models, there is a good chance of seeing the Buck Moon across much of…
Total Solar Eclipse ‘Map Of Nope’ Meme Is A Must-See Before August
Topline A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe, but only to a narrow path across parts of…
CUNY Researchers Replicate Black Hole Energy Extraction on a Tabletop
Researchers at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center have shown that a stationary tabletop circuit can amplify electromagnetic…
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This…
Overnight News Digest: July 25, 2026
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean,…