Chinese astronomers discover star formation in high-velocity cloud
Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the…
MaiaSpace: Europe steps up in the race for reusable rockets
Published on 13/03/2026 – 15:00 GMT+1 MaiaSpace is assembling and testing Europe’s first reusable mini-launcher at its factory…
“My stomach lurched as the hippo drifted in our direction, only her pink, sweaty face visible – like a shark’s fin.”
It was a misty morning, soon to be scorching, like every day in Niger, when we arrived at…
Rare ‘acid geyser’ in Yellowstone forcefully erupts after long silence
Scientists have documented that Yellowstone’s rare acidic Echinus geyser has resumed erupting after more than five years of…
At least eight people dead after spate of tornadoes across central US | Michigan
Communities throughout the central United States were cleaning up and trying to recover after an onslaught deadly tornadoes…
Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina…
A lab mistake at Cambridge reveals a powerful new way to modify drug molecules
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a new technique that uses light instead of toxic chemicals…
Super El Niño could bring severe drought to ASEAN and push 2027 to record heat
March 12, 2026 BANGKOK – Meteorologists around the world are closely monitoring the El Niño event expected to…
NASA Plans to Build the First Permanent Human Base on the Moon with Water
NASA is setting its sights on building a permanent base on the Moon, a huge step in humanity’s…
Wolves kill—and ravens remember where
image: Two ravens soar above a wolf pack in Yellowstone. This type of short-distance following is common, but…
‘Unprecedented in the past 3.6 million years’: How human-made climate change is making days longer
Published on 14/03/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Climate change is slowing the planet’s spin at an “unprecedented” rate compared…
Watch: ‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia’s current activities in the far south eastern…