Martian Astronomy: Percy Sees a ‘Phobos Eclipse’ From Mars
What’s so special about spotting Phobos crossing in front of the Sun? Sure. It’s just another image of…
Taiwan codeveloped satellite wins mission award
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter The cube satellite developed by the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) in partnership…
Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into refrigeration
A team of scientists in Germany and Japan has demonstrated a solid-state cooling system that uses heat to…
They brought back 48 species from the deep Pacific, and most have no name
One creature hauled up from the deep has only a single other known specimen on Earth, and the…
Across six Apollo landings, astronauts left a commonly cited 96 waste bags and containers on the Moon. Researchers have proposed retrieving one—not to clean up, but to discover whether any human microbes survived up to 57 years of lunar radiation, vacuum and extreme temperature swings.
One of the strangest experiments in astrobiology has already been running for more than half a century. Nobody…
Fifteen Britons among 261 foreigners missing in China after floods | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
Fifteen British nationals are reported to be missing in China as the search continues for survivors of the…
Looking for Earth 2.0 in Binary Systems
While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude…
A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot
Future quantum computers may depend on the ability to connect widely separated modules through distributed entanglement. Until now,…
7-foot alligator found by City Park, another being sought | News
A 7-and-a-half-foot alligator was captured near City Park over the weekend, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials…
In May 2024, the Gannon geomagnetic storm—the strongest in more than two decades—compressed Earth’s plasmasphere to roughly one-fifth its previous radial extent, while the same disturbance pushed auroras unusually close to the equator, bringing the northern lights to Mexico and Japan and the southern lights across Australia.
For millions of people, the Gannon storm arrived as colour. Red auroras appeared over Mexico, blue and purple…
In 2025, Texas engineers mixed 4.5 tons of recycled plastic into a highway, replacing part of the bitumen to test how it handles extreme heat | World News
Representative Image of plastic waste being transformed into road-building material for sustainable infrastructure (AI-generated image) On State Highway…
On this day in space! Aug. 31, 1965: NASA’s ginormous Super Guppy carrier plane takes 1st flight like a flying whale
On August 31, 1965, NASA’s Super Guppy cargo plane took its first test flight. This oversized aircraft looks…