Total Solar Eclipse Sets Up Stunning Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
Topline One of the rarest combinations of celestial events in years is now less than three weeks away.…
In 1850s, house sparrows were introduced to North America to control insects, but the tiny birds quickly spread, became a common sight and turned into one of the continent’s most widespread invasive species
The house sparrow is probably one of the easiest birds to ignore. You see them everywhere. They hop…
Four dead stars have been confirmed within 65 light-years of Earth, hidden for decades in the glare of the brighter red dwarfs they orbit
Four white dwarfs, the burned-out cores left when Sun-like stars die, have been directly confirmed for the first…
Sand battery: Finland’s radical answer to a renewable energy headache
The industrial-scale sand battery in Finland’s Pornainen can cover almost one month of the town’s heating demands in…
ESA Awards ispace €65M Contract to Build and Deliver MAGPIE Rover to the Moon
Credit: ispace ESA has awarded a contract to Luxembourg-based ispace-Europe to complete the development of the MAGPIE lunar…
Deep inside polar craters on Mercury, sunlight has never once fallen — and NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft confirmed in 2012 that those permanently shadowed floors hold ancient water ice, sitting metres from terrain hot enough to melt lead
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. At its equator in daytime, the surface can reach about…
Human Impact on Island Biodiversity: New Study Reveals How People Reshaped Species Richness and Extinction Patterns
The paper also argues that many biodiversity patterns observed today – such as species richness, endemism and ecological…
New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA…
Giraffes given a new home in Uganda to escape oil drilling in the country’s largest park
MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — On a cold morning in Uganda’s largest national park, rangers chat…
Smart ring continuously tracks multiple health biomarkers from finger sweat
Engineers at the University of California San Diego created a smart ring that simultaneously and continuously monitors up to…
Two-Thirds of Global Mining Facilities Face Significant Water Risk, ICMM Warns
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s mining and metals facilities are exposed to at least one significant physical water…
Hubble and Webb uncover Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole after 23 years of observations
For decades, Omega Centauri has presented astronomers with a paradox. The Milky Way’s largest globular cluster contains roughly…