Venus Aerospace raises $91 million to advance its revolutionary rocket engine design
Houston-based company Venus Aerospace announced today (June 8) the closing of its “Series B” financing round, which raised…
NASA’s IXPE uncovers hidden magnetic structure in a pulsar nebula
For nearly two decades, astronomers have suspected that the Lighthouse Nebula, an elegant, needle-thin structure stretching across space,…
When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice Shelf in January 2025, scientists aboard a nearby research vessel sailed to the exposed seafloor and found a thriving forest of giant sponges, octopuses, and sea spiders that had survived for centuries without sunlight
The most important part of the Antarctic iceberg story is not the iceberg. It is what appeared after…
Space medicine breakthrough? Kidney and liver tissue bioprinted off Earth for 1st time ever
A company just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called…
Tourist Seriously Injured After Bison Tosses Him 8 Feet Into The Air At Yellowstone National Park
A tourist was seriously injured after a bull bison charged at him and tossed him about eight feet…
An octopus has three hearts, blue blood and around 500 million neurons, two thirds of them not in its head but spread through its arms, so each arm can taste, decide and act almost on its own.
An octopus looks like one animal, but its nervous system is arranged more like a living network. The…
New heat wave blasts US, could break records
Some 44 million Americans were under a heat wave warning on Saturday as temperatures in the Rocky Mountains…
Numbat conservation efforts pull native species from brink of extinction
Numbats, Western Australia’s animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population…
When Italian and German researchers modeled a square-meter array of 1,482 neodymium magnets, the simulation showed roughly a fifth of incoming low-energy solar protons being deflected — suggesting a potential way for deep-space crews to reduce some of the mass they currently carry for radiation shielding.
When Italian and German researchers modeled a square-meter array of 1,482 neodymium magnets, the simulation showed roughly a…
Super El Nino will hit women the hardest, charity warns: ‘We should be very worried’
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
SpaceX has asked to place 100,000 Gen3 satellites into 20 orbital shells split between 323–327.5 and 473–477.5 kilometers above Earth, each weighing up to 2,500 kilograms — more than 200 million kilograms of spacecraft before a single launch vehicle or drop of propellant is counted
SpaceX has applied to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for permission to operate a 100,000-satellite “Gen3” system in…
Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
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