R-Selecting Tiny Probes To Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described…
The blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood through an aorta about nine inches across, wide enough to fit a human head but not the crawling child of the popular legend
A blue whale’s heart weighs about 400 pounds — roughly a small piano — and when the animal…
NASA plans three more 2026 lunar task orders, including an orbiter to follow LRO
NASA’s June Moon Base update said it would solicit proposals for additional lunar deliveries, including a South Pole…
Greek wildfire kills two people as aircraft deployed to blaze at Belgian nature reserve | Wildfires
Two people have died in fires on the Greek island of Salamis as firefighting aircraft were called on…
U.S. Space Force and Japan complete QZSS hosted-payload launches to strengthen monitoring of geosynchronous orbit over Indo-Pacific
The U.S. Space Force and Japan have completed the second and final launch under their Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted…
‘Giraffe’s head’ sinkhole stunt backfires in South Africa
When politicians from South Africa’s main opposition party put a stuffed giraffe’s head into a sinkhole, their plan…
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it could have slipped from view.
On one night in August 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope recorded a faint point of mid-infrared light…
From Wales with love: Stranded sea turtle Rhossi back in Texas after epic 5k-mile trek : NPR
NPR’s Eyder Peralta talks to the care team of Rhossi, a sea turtle from the Gulf of Mexico…
NASA funds spherical ‘Aerobots’ that could explore the caves of Saturn’s moon Titan
Spherical “Aerobots” may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says…
China pushes quantum entanglement 4x to 260 miles across fiber
Quantum networks could eventually connect computers and sensors across cities, but distance remains a major engineering hurdle. Quantum…
Divers rescue sharks trapped in crab pot
A wildlife charity has said its encouraging people to report lost fishing gear they come across while at…
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a spacecraft with razor-thin power margins and no possibility of physical repair.
Voyager 2 has no repair port that anyone can reach, no spare spacecraft waiting nearby and no possibility…