Juvenile humpback whale washes ashore in Winthrop
Local News An investigation is underway into the death of the young whale, which was discovered lodged under…
Astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at once describe the overview effect — every war and border and argument hanging in silence — and afterwards traffic and small talk can feel strangely far away, like the world seen through glass
Edgar Mitchell, riding home aboard Apollo 14 in February 1971 after walking on the Fra Mauro highlands, watched…
July 19, 418: A solar eclipse/comet combo
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, an eclipse isn’t the only stunning thing in…
In 1970, Venera 7 appeared to fall silent when it hit Venus, but engineers later found 23 minutes of faint radio data buried in the recording — the first transmission ever received from the surface of another planet
Venera 7’s radio signal appeared to end when the Soviet capsule reached Venus on 15 December 1970. The…
Citizen Scientists Helped Decipher How Harvestmen Became Oddly Devoted Dads
The post Citizen Scientists Helped Decipher How Harvestmen Became Oddly Devoted Dads appeared first on A-Z Animals. Traditionally,…
Runway-Launched Spaceplane Programs: Dawn Aerospace Introduced Its Aurora Spaceplane
Dawn Aerospace secured a US$25 million Series B funding round to accelerate development of Aurora, its reusable spaceplane…
Colorado bear lounges on backyard patio feet from barking dog, then calmly strolls away
Residents near one Arvada, Colorado, backyard got an unusually close look at local wildlife after a large black…
It’s 4,500 years old, 180km across and cloned itself from a single seedling – meet the largest, most humongous plant on the planet
In the shallow waters of Western Australia’s Shark Bay lies a beautiful seagrass meadow. Often known as Poseidon’s ribbon weed (Posidonia…
Expert explains why it’s ‘unusual’ a sevengill shark was involved in Bruny Island attack
Daryl McPheeI think it’s a very isolated event. If I was in Tasmania, I wouldn’t be particularly concerned…
Scientists Studying Earth’s Flowering Plants Issue a Stark Warning to Humanity : ScienceAlert
From the beloved vanilla orchid, whose pods flavor many of our favorite desserts, to the nose-twisting corpse flower,…
When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents
Spirit’s right-front wheel stopped turning on 13 March 2006, more than two Earth years after the rover reached…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…