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…
Fifty years of census reveals shift in southern right whales breeding off Australia
Each winter, southern right whales move north from the Antarctic to the southern Australian coastline to breed in…
Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic Alfvén-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels from Earth.
Enceladus is small enough to fit comfortably within the length of Great Britain. Its electromagnetic influence, however, reaches…
At Denmark’s Port of Aalborg, designers cut a retired wind-turbine blade into a curved roof that now shelters bicycles — a second life for the composite piece turbines can’t easily recycle
At the Port of Aalborg in northern Denmark, a section of decommissioned wind-turbine blade sits on steel supports…
Astronaut captures Miami lighting shift from space
A photograph of Miami lit by multi-colored LEDs in 2025 taken from the International Space Station. Courtesy of…
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…
Astronomers Create Gallery of 16 ‘Cosmic Gems’ to Show Variety of Shapes a Galaxy Can Be
The new collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes – NASA-CXC-SAO via SWNS Space scientists…
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…
One of the world’s darkest paints makes everything look like a black hole – and it could save our night sky
A new study of one of the world’s darkest coatings suggests it could dramatically reduce the impact of…
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…
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…
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…