World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August | Oceans
The world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded on Saturday, according to the latest data. The average…
After $11.4 million China satellite debt dispute, Nigeria turns to Israeli, French firms for next-generation satellites
The Federal Government has approved the acquisition and deployment of NigComSat-2A and NigComSat-2B, with Israel Aerospace Industries…
Real-space imaging of moiré-confined excitons in twisted bilayer MoS2
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar …
On this day in space! Aug. 24, 2006: Pluto loses its planet status
On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore. Since that…
The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events
NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the…
A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter
For billions of years, an ancient cluster of stars has been gradually coming apart, shedding stars that now…
A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter
For billions of years, an ancient cluster of stars has been gradually coming apart, shedding stars that now…
Astronomers have measured a Saturn-mass object apparently drifting through the Milky Way without a star—and microlensing surveys suggest that unseen free-floating worlds may outnumber the galaxy’s stars, perhaps by as much as 20 to one.
A short gravitational microlensing event observed from Earth and the Gaia spacecraft has given astronomers a direct mass…
Ecuador’s Indigenous women are planting trees for birds, growing cacao for their families and protecting the forest for their children to save the Amazon | World News
Flor Juanga, a Shuar community representative from Ecuador’s Sucumbios Province. In Ecuador’s Amazon, planting a tree can mean…
Tory Bruno Named Honorary Chair Of World Space Week 2027
Houston — World Space Week Association announced today that Tory Bruno, President of National Security at Blue Origin,…
University of Göttingen Researchers Map Molecular Wave Functions in 3D
Universities of Goettingen UniversityGermany · 1001-5000 FTEs The University of Göttingen is a public research university in Göttingen,…
It moves like a cat, climbs like a primate and spends much of its time high up in trees — meet the world’s strangest dog
In the last moments of a glorious winter sunset in the Sonoran Desert – the ‘Magic Hour’, as…