Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep
New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm…
The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star; it is GJ 887 d, confirmed in 2026 around a quiet red dwarf 10.7 light-years away
There is something almost comic about the name GJ 887 d. It sounds like a storage code, not…
AI tool helps explain how perching birds became so diverse
Perching birds evolved their body shapes in rare, sudden bursts that lined up with moments of upheaval in…
We tend to imagine the habitable zone as a narrow ring around a star, but icy moons have transformed that picture. Far beyond the reach of life-sustaining sunlight, vast oceans may remain liquid beneath their frozen surfaces—warmed by the constant gravitational flexing of the giant planets they orbit.
The picture most of us were given at school was wonderfully simple. Put a star in the middle,…
A star near the centre of our galaxy reaches almost 3 per cent of the speed of light as it is whipped around something four million times the mass of the Sun that emits no light of its own — and tracking its orbit for nearly three decades helped two astronomers win a Nobel Prize
Near the centre of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light-years from Earth, a young blue star repeatedly performs…
JWST May Be Missing Water Hidden Deep Within Mini-Neptune Worlds
Sub-Neptune exoplanets, exoplanets that are slightly smaller than Neptune, have been designated as the most common type of…
UC Irvine’s Conductive Polymer Bio-Outlet Delivers 16 Mbps Data Stream to Neural Implants
UC Irvine scientists develop hidden charging interface for long-term implanted medical devicesNeedle-access outlet powers implants without permanently exposing…
Psyche spacecraft rehearses asteroid science at Mars
Mars was a rehearsal, not a destination. Here is what a spacecraft built for a metal asteroid came…
Underwater drones find Benin coral reef long presumed dead, and it’s teeming with life
A coral reef off the coast of Benin that scientists had long assumed was dead has been found…
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission
The James Webb Space Telescope is often described by what it can see: galaxies forming near the dawn…
ESA’s Mars Express meets NASA’s Psyche
On 15 May, whilst en route to a metallic asteroid, NASA’s Psyche mission flew just 4500 km above…
Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether the spacecraft responded
The delay is no longer a poetic way of describing deep space. It is an operating condition. Voyager…