‘Don’t panic’: How two men were rescued from a flood-stricken Nepali power plant
Kathmandu, Nepal — Nine days after flash flooding washed away valleys and buried entire villages, rescue workers in Nepal…
Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says
The United States does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in…
Endangered whale shark spotted just off NYC coast in extraordinary encounter
NEW YORK CITY – A massive, endangered whale shark was recently spotted surfacing mere inches from a boat…
The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock.
Gateway is often described as the Moon’s first spaceport, but almost nothing about it resembles an airport on…
Two men pulled alive from Nepal hydropower plant tunnel nine days after floods
If you’re just joining us, there is a sense of renewed hope in Nepal today after two workers…
Lunar Occultation of Venus – NASA
On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar…
No escape from thermodynamic limits
HOW do you explain what Charles Dickens called “The best of times, and the worst of times?” We…
Scientists filmed a sperm whale giving birth and watched females from another family line help bring the calf into the world — then repeatedly lift the newborn to the surface and support it there while it was still too weak and uncoordinated to swim properly on its own
Blood clouded the water off Dominica just before noon, and eleven sperm whales pressed in closer instead of…
After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
But the propulsion module was no longer required, and BepiColombo needed to get rid of it before slipping…
Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years
A rare surge in Antarctic snowfall temporarily added hundreds of billions of tons of ice to East Antarctica,…
For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 per cent bound water by mass, locked largely inside hydrated iron and magnesium salts.
Venus’s brilliant cloud deck has been described for almost half a century as concentrated sulphuric-acid droplets suspended in…
Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…