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Today, Microsoft published its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report. This report covers our fiscal year 2025, and measures progress…
Astronaut reveals the tiny glowing garden inside the International Space Station where scientists are learning how to grow food for future Moon and Mars missions |
The pink light visible in recent timelapse footage from the International Space Station is not a camera effect…
New study explains why some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise
Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and…
This common pesticide may be quietly wiping out future bumblebees
Bumblebees may be small, measuring only about an inch long, but they play an enormous role in global…
The Iran war is pushing some countries to move away from oil faster : NPR
Workers install solar panels on the roof of a house on Monday in Antipolo, Philippines. In the wake…
What is the Kardashev scale used by Elon Musk?
Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the…
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000-light-year wake of newborn stars
A thin streak of gas and young stars trailing a distant galaxy is the wake of a supermassive…
Meet Claire Parfitt: Scientist who once cleaned space toilets, now leading exploration teams to Mars |
Sometimes realising a dream requires doing the minutest of tasks in order to gain the experience and work…
Scientists say ‘super-Earth’ located 25 light-years away from us may be a top place to look for life
Scientists have found a planet about 25 light-years from Earth that could offer a valuable nearby case in…
Israel’s Beresheet lander crashed into the Moon in 2019 carrying several thousand tardigrades in a dehydrated, dormant state—and although later experiments suggest they probably did not survive the impact, nobody knows whether any remain intact enough to be revived if they were ever recovered and rehydrated.
On 11 April 2019, the Israeli lander Beresheet lost its main engine in the final minute of descent…
Astronomers believe the Milky Way may contain billions, perhaps even trillions, of rogue planets drifting without close stars — and a 2026 study found one 9,800 light-years away that was likely born in a planetary system before being thrown into the dark
Astronomers have measured both the mass and the distance of a rogue planet for the first time. The…