New study suggests Earth could escape the sun’s fiery demise
This NASA animation shows gamma rays (magenta) arise when accelerated particles in the explosion’s shock wave crash into…
UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security | Food security
Members of parliament have demanded full publication of an explosive report by the UK’s spy leaders that found…
NASA’s Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space
In late June, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft woke up from a nearly year-long slumber at a distance of…
3 Questions: Searching for new physics with “beauty” particles | MIT News
The Standard Model of particle physics is a well established theory that describes the fundamental particles and forces…
Sakha Entrepreneurs Face Social Media Backlash Over South Africa Lion Hunt
Three businesspeople from Russia’s republic of Sakha sparked a torrent of criticism on social media after posting photos…
The JWST and the Mystery of Massive Quenched Galaxies in the Early Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has applied relentless pressure on our understanding of the Cosmos. The powerful infrared…
Responsible carbon accounting | Nature Climate Change
Carbon accounting shapes how climate responsibility is allocated, and expanding existing frameworks could provide a stronger basis for…
Proxima Centauri b is our closest known habitable-zone exoplanet, just over four light-years away, and it may be warm enough for liquid water if it has kept an atmosphere. But that “if” is enormous: its red-dwarf star blasts it with extreme radiation strong enough, in some models, to strip an Earth-like atmosphere away.
Proxima Centauri b has a claim no other known exoplanet can match. It orbits the nearest star to…
Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature’s puncture tools
Most people probably aren’t thinking about the complexity of nature when they get stung by a bee or…
First commercial nuclear satellite launched on SpaceX mission — ANS / Nuclear Newswire
The assembled BOHR CubeSat. (Photo: City Labs) A diagram of the BOHR CubeSat assembly. (Image: City Labs) The…
Southwest Pacific’s last tropical glacier could vanish within months
The latest State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific report found that 2025 was the second warmest year on record for…
Shoebox-sized ‘detector satellites’ could sniff out a nuclear bomb in space
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by…