This Week In Space LIVE — The Viking Mars landings 50 years later
This Week in Space 220 – YouTube Watch On Hey, Space Fans! Every weekend here at Space.com, you…
Japan’s monkey sensation Punch gets thousands of birthday messages as he turns 1 on Sunday
ICHIKAWA, Japan — Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by clinging…
Rare, well-preserved snake fossil offers new insight into millions of years of evolution
As the West continues to feel the heat, some animals are pushing into human residences for resources. Dr.…
Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa | Indigenous Australians
Carlleen Dingo’s earliest memories are of looking up at the inky black skies above Australia’s north-west coastline, awash…
How MP taught orphaned tiger cubs to return — and rule — in the wild
An orphaned tiger cub crouches silently in the undergrowth. A chital grazes a few metres away, unaware of…
The Universe can outrun light without breaking Einstein’s rules
An expanding universe makes measuring distance more complicated because space does not remain fixed while light travels through…
Security Council debrief: Race for critical minerals intensifies amidst warnings of conflict
They are all essential as part of the global shift away from fossil fuels towards cleaner energy sources …
How does a pond in Antarctica sitting at minus 50 degrees refuse to freeze, year after year, while everything around it is solid ice?
The short answer is salt. The more interesting answer is that Don Juan Pond is barely a pond…
River pollution is merging two fish species into one new hybrid species
Tucked away in Mexican rivers, two small fish species that have coexisted for generations are starting to fade…
Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World
In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a helium-rich…
In the early 1980s, poaching wiped out all wildlife in this Ugandan reserve, now 12 giraffes are being brought back to save them from oil drilling
On a chilly morning in Uganda’s largest national park, rangers did more than prepare for a conservation mission:…
A study showed six-month-old babies photos of spiders next to flowers matched for size and colour, and their pupils widened measurably for the spiders
Four researchers sat sixteen six-month-old babies on their parents’ laps in a windowless room in Uppsala, Sweden, and…