SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: Super Heavy booster rolled back for final checkouts
2026-07-15T11:15:40.020Z SpaceX readying Starship to launch in just over 24 hours (Image credit: Background: SpaceX, clock added in…
This Greek island has a dark past. Now it’s covered in rare seals
It’s unclear how long the seals had been on the island, but Kotomatas believes its long isolation created…
Cosmic-ray detector installed in Bolivia strengthens global space weather network
A $600 cosmic-ray detector carried from Atlanta to the Andes makes Bolivia the newest node in a worldwide…
Perseid meteor shower 2026: ‘The shooting stars’ return under an Earthshine Moon — when and how to watch |
Get ready for one of the best sky shows of the year. The Perseid meteor shower is back,…
Secrets determining hydrogen quantum behaviors unlocked by scientists
Scientists at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo have uncovered the role of…
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice within a minute of launch and survived because one flight controller recognized an obscure electrical pattern almost nobody else in Mission Control understood
Thirty-six and a half seconds after Apollo 12 left Kennedy Space Center on 14 November 1969, lightning travelled…
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
When Senra CEO Jordan Black was a SpaceX engineer, he took on the job of scaling up the…
Electrons do more than just flow
Recent advances in quantum materials have shifted the focus from charge transport to a broader range of electronic…
An AI radar system called Bear-dar has successfully detected a polar bear mother and two cubs in Canada’s High Arctic, giving weather station staff time to avoid a dangerous surprise encounter
An AI radar system called Bear-dar successfully detected a polar bear family (Representational photo- Getty images) An AI-powered…
Voyager 1 crossed the edge of the Sun’s protective bubble and entered interstellar space, but instead of fading gently into the void it met a strange, porous boundary scientists had not anticipated
For six years one of Voyager 1’s instruments had counted the same steady drizzle of low-energy particles streaming…
APOD: 2026 July 15 – Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert
APOD: 2026 July 15 – Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
The 2026 Physics World Instrumentation & Vacuum Briefing is out now – Physics World
The 2026 Physics World Instrumentation & Vacuum Briefing is out now – Physics World Skip to main content…