A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Current gravitational wave observatories aren’t sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can only…
Feisty survivor: Sage the rare olive ridley turtle is going home after ghost net ordeal
Sage, a rare olive ridley turtle, was rescued from a ghost fishing net in December 2025 and…
The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a very bad day, not its normal state.
Voyager 2 reached Uranus on 24 January 1986 and remains the only spacecraft ever to have visited the…
The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial
The numbers are now trickling in: nearly 2,900 dead in the UK, at least 35,000 dead across Europe.…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
Biopsies, aerial drills and a personal pizza: a day in the life of a shark scientist | Well actually
“Sharks are not monsters, they just need better PR,” writes Jasmin Graham. And she should know: Graham is…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Sept. 6). The spacecraft rode to…
Artist’s AI secrets project collects hundreds of anonymous confessions
In September 2025, Olivia Tai trekked to Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco with a makeshift box, blank…
It’s one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it’s about to bloom with millions of flowers
Stretching along an over 1,000km-long strip of land in northern Chile, west of the Andes, is the Atacama…
NASA’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Space Technology Mission Directorate Building capabilities to support America’s presence on the Moon and beyond. To support NASA’s goals…
Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissions.
The sunlight arriving at Earth this moment left the Sun’s visible surface a little over eight minutes ago.…
Rare California sighting of endangered gray wolf in Lake County
A gray wolf was spotted in Lake County, a bright sign that the recovering endangered species is expanding…