“I didn’t know what I was looking at”: drone films one of the strangest and rarest animals on the planet
A videographer in Western Australia was amazed to see a critically endangered wedgefish leading a group of fish…
What are the strange little red dots seen in the early Universe? Scientists have come up with an intriguing new theory
The discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope of little red dots – a previously unexpected population of…
The Milky Way’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
Somewhere near the star Altair, one of the brighter stars in the northern summer sky, sits an object…
Great Apes kiss and cuddle to keep the peace, says study – BBC
Great Apes kiss and cuddle to keep the peace, says study BBCTry a little tenderness – new study into…
Scientists propose model to protect Earth from solar storms
If a massive solar storm capable of wiping out power grids across the U.S. was headed toward Earth,…
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an…
5 stunning purple snakes that look straight out of a fantasy novel
Snakes are among the lethal creatures found in the wild, and spotting one almost sends chills down a…
Rivers of magma once bubbled beneath crust of Mars, research suggests | Mars
Mars once had rivers of magma bubbling beneath its crust, new research suggests. The surprise find makes it…
Elon Musk Says the Short Sellers Betting Against SpaceX Have a “Very Low” Survival Probability. Their Bets Now Equal 32% of the Float.
“The survival probability of firms who maintain a significant short position in SpaceX over time is very low,”…
The case for Enceladus as a potentially habitable world does not rest on speculation alone: sodium salts point to an ocean that has interacted with rock, molecular hydrogen reveals a potential chemical energy source, and phosphorus—the long-missing essential ingredient—has been detected in ice grains expelled from its ocean
Enceladus has become one of the strongest candidates for a habitable environment beyond Earth through a sequence of…
How Europe’s Extreme Heat Waves Have Impacted the Tour de France
If organizers do not have the flexibility to move start times or cancel stages in extreme heat, Cvijanovic…
In early 2027, a shoebox-sized CubeSat called HENON will set off for a point ten times farther from Earth than today’s solar storm sentinels, carrying a 23-gram magnetometer built in the UK that could stretch the warning before a major geomagnetic storm from about fifteen minutes to nearly three hours
The European Space Agency is preparing to push its solar storm sentinels ten times farther from Earth, a…