Europa may hold more water than Earth, but a new study suggests its hidden ocean is almost impossible to reach |
Representative Image of Europa’s hidden ocean beneath its icy surface (AI-generated image) Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons,…
SpaceX launches Starship Flight 13 with 20 Starlink V3 satellites from Texas
SpaceX launched Starship Flight 13 on July 24, 2026, at 5:51 p.m. CT from Starbase in Texas, successfully…
Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have caused firestorms 17 times hotter than the thermal limit lethal to humans
Scientists once suspected that a brutal, years-long winter starved the dinosaurs following an asteroid impact 66 million years…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash: its plastic averages roughly 50 kilograms spread across each square kilometer, and a 2022 study found 75 to 86 percent of the large floating debris by mass came from fishing gear, not household waste
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is usually pictured as a floating landfill, a raft of bottles and bags…
China launches secretive TJS-27 pair, orbits next-gen Tianlian relay sat
HELSINKI — China sent a new pair of secretive satellites into a programmatically new orbit Wednesday, while also…
Mars is usually named as humanity’s most likely second home, but a NASA-funded study concluded it cannot be terraformed with present technology, and until that changes, living there would mean sealing yourself against near-vacuum, deep cold and steady radiation
Mars is the planet we have quietly agreed to think of as our spare. It turns up in…
Funnels That Harvest Rain and Solar Power While Shading a Public Plaza
Water scarcity and urban heat are two separate crises that public infrastructure rarely addresses together. Most public spaces…
This Week in Science: Dyson Spheres, Hidden Amazon Structures, And More : ScienceAlert
This Week in Science: Creatine’s effect on cancer, a dinosaur-era ‘turducken’, and much more! First up: JWST has…
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly ten kilometres across struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula…
Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge
Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities…
A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report
The amount of space junk falling back to Earth is increasing as more rockets and satellites are launched…
Falls in whale sightings, rare seabirds appearing – is something unusual happening in the Southern Ocean?
In late June, whale watchers in southwest Western Australia sounded the alarm. They had seen far fewer humpback…