NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with incredible views of space
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA has released four spectacular images of deep space…
A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it’s not clear why
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever processes…
What did the night sky look like on the 1st Independence Day 250 years ago?
What did the evening sky look like for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries on July 4,…
Renowned neurobiologist and former taekwondo captain Chih-Ying Su leaves US for China
Celebrated neurobiologist Chih-Ying Su, who specialises in research on the sense of smell using fruit flies and mosquitoes,…
Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved
This week’s science news was all about goings on in space, with reports that the James Webb Space…
The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them
The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and…
Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself — Cassini-era estimates have placed their age anywhere from about 10 million to a few hundred million years, meaning the rings we see today may not have existed for most of the age of dinosaurs.
Saturn looks like the solar system’s old monument, a pale gas giant encircled by rings that seem as…
In 1995, astronomers pointed Hubble at a patch of sky so dark it looked empty and held it there for ten days. The image that came back contained roughly 3,000 galaxies — not stars, but galaxies — many holding billions of stars of their own.
In December 1995, Hubble did something that sounded almost like a misuse of a great telescope. It stared…
“I was photographing seabirds on a remote island off Norway. Then a huge predator appeared from nowhere”
Josef Stefan is a wildlife photographer from Austria. His work has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year…
New optical centrifuge unlocks the secrets of frictionless superfluids
Physicists have developed a new way to control the rotation of molecules inside tiny droplets of liquid helium,…
Final Atlas 5 Amazon Leo mission launches
WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 lifted off July 2 carrying a set of Amazon Leo satellites in the…
This tropical creature lives almost 3 times longer than expected and appears to barely age. Here’s why scientists are so excited
Most butterflies live only a few weeks after reaching maturity. So when scientists at the University of Bristol,…