Groundswell joins green groups in opposing environment reform
Farming lobby group Groundswell says the coalition Government’s resource management reform will be “unworkable”. Environmental groups last week…
Cassini logged 67 crossings of the funnel where the solar wind reaches Saturn, and after the count was divided by how long the spacecraft spent looking, the peak sat in the afternoon instead of at noon where Earth’s cusp sits — three crossings turned up past dusk
Archived Cassini magnetometer and plasma-spectrometer data from 2004 to 2010 hold 67 crossings of Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, and…
The Surprising Reason Koalas Roam More in September
Koalas are famously quiet and still, but the sounds they make in September will genuinely surprise you. Hear…
The charts that show the havoc El Nino is set to wreck across the world
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Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…
Astronomers already knew the Milky Way’s magnetic field reverses near the Sagittarius Arm, but a new 2026 three-dimensional model revealed the boundary’s unexpected shape: not a vertical wall between spiral arms, but a tilted magnetic plane slicing diagonally through the Galactic disc and passing just above our own region of space.
The Milky Way has a magnetic field, but no camera can step outside the Galaxy and photograph its…
Clear-cut logging is making floods worse. But it’s not just about how many trees are cut
The 2021 floods in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley caused upwards of $14 billion in damages. Since then, communities…
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon s Shadow
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon s Shadow Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
Chinese-German team builds ultra-sensitive ‘floating compass’ to hunt dark matter
Chinese researchers have developed a table-top magnetic sensor that operates at room temperature and can spot magnetic signals…
On this day in space! Sept. 5, 1977: NASA launches Voyager 1 on epic journey across the solar system
On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch…
Denmark turns a retired wind turbine blade into a bike shelter as recycling challenge grows
Across the United States and many other countries, wind power is gaining ground as a cleaner alternative to…
Comets may have transported water to a young planetary system: Study
Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of exocomets, comets in other solar systems, orbiting a…