NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29,…
Astronomers assumed the lava planet 55 Cancri e, just 41 light-years away, had no atmosphere worth studying — James Webb found instead that its molten interior is actively exhaling a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, the gases bubbling up from a planetary-scale ocean of magma
For years, 55 Cancri e looked like a test of how thoroughly a nearby star could strip a…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown straight through the Sun’s outer atmosphere at more than 690,000 kilometres per hour—the fastest any object built by human hands has ever moved, quick enough to cross from New York to Tokyo in under a minute.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun on 8 June 2026, once again…
Monkeys and humans react similarly to eerily realistic bodies
A new study finds that monkeys show signs of the uncanny valley – the unease people get around…
New light-sheet imaging system tracks brain seizure dynamics in 3D
Seizures can race through the brain in seconds, making them difficult to capture in detail. To overcome this…
Astronomers Catch a “Dark Comet” Red-Handed
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a…
Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail
The near-Earth object (875163) 1998 SH2, which is currently classified as an asteroid, has revealed a hidden identity: it’s…
Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa
Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the West African nation of…
Establishing Crew Exposure Limits of Martian Dust
Human exploration of Mars will expose crews to a persistent, fine particulate environment whose physicochemical properties and health…
Escaped wallaby leads police on chase through Dutch city
July 20 (UPI) — Police in the Netherlands responded to an unusual report of an animal on the…
In March 2025, astronomers confirmed 128 new moons around Saturn in a single day, nearly doubling its count to 274 — more moons than every other planet in the solar system combined
For a long time, the solar system’s moon counts sounded almost settled at the human scale. Jupiter and…
An embattled coal terminal could be a lifeline for US coal | Energy
California, United States – Margaret Gordon had seen her grandson racked with asthma in the early 1990s in…