Launching 10,000 tiny ‘femtosats’ to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas
NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s…
In 1987, Fort Peck tribes returned over 100 bison to 5,800 acres; decades later they stopped hunting their own herd to restore the original cultural purpose | World News
Representative Image of the Fort Peck buffalo herd grazing across a vast 33,000-acre prairie (AI-generated image) In 1987,…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-23T11:07:04.809Z How to view a partial lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse captured over the United Kingdom in 2007.…
Drill, Burnham, drill? The oil basin that is a totem for Trump – and a headache for Britain’s new PM | Fossil fuels
When oil was first discovered off the north-east coast of Scotland in September 1969, industry folklore has it…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat’s lungs without the blade ever touching it
The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead…
Telescope image that echoes Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ contains some of the oldest stars in the universe — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud Where it is: 430 light-years away, in the…
London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? | Low emission zones
Ten years ago, Alastair Harper was an advocate for young people’s health sitting in a stuffy meeting room…
A microwave-oven-sized experiment inside NASA’s Perseverance rover made history in 2021 by extracting oxygen from Mars’s carbon-dioxide atmosphere—the first demonstration of producing a usable resource from the environment of another planet.
On 20 April 2021, one day after a helicopter made the first powered flight on another world, a…
In 2021, National Geographic reported that Sydney cockatoos can pry open garbage bins; by the end of 2019, the learned trick had spread across 44 suburbs | World News
Cockatoo in Sydney. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons News from Sydney about cockatoos that learned to open garbage bins…
The Sky Today on Sunday, August 23: Double star Zeta Coronae Borealis
Back to Article List Seek out this easy-to-split but complex multiple star system in the Northern Crown, visible…
Anger over slow pace of reconstruction in Italian town devastated by earthquake in 2016 | Italy
As people gather in Amatrice on Monday for a mass to mark the 10th anniversary of the earthquake…