Spacecraft returns to Earth after rescue mission for ageing Nasa telescope fails | Nasa
A spacecraft that was launched in July on a mission to rescue a decaying Nasa space observatory plunged…
A 60-beam ultraviolet laser flash-vaporized the surface of tiny diamonds so the blast would kick a shock wave through them, melting the hardest material on Earth at 12,680 degrees and 145 million psi, and solid diamond turned out to float on its own melt like ice on water
KeysQuestions4Explore4 For two decades, physicists couldn’t agree on something as fundamental as when diamond melts — and the…
Britain may have a new venomous snake. A zoologist explains
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NASA announces new space telescope ‘PRIMA’ to launch in 2033 – Spaceflight Now
An artist’s rendering of the PRIMA Observatory. Graphic: NASA/JPL-Caltech On the heels of launching its Nancy Grace Roman…
East Suffolk councillor calls for Christmas waste plan
James Mallinder, who represents Deben ward, raised the issue at Wednesday’s full council meeting, warning that households could…
An Imminent Google Satellite Test Is Another Step Toward Data Centers in Space
On Oct. 1, Google plans to hitch a ride on a SpaceX Transporter 18 rideshare flight, entrusting the…
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable…
Watch Shotley rock legend Rick Wakeman’s concert for bears
The bears at Animals Asia’s sanctuary in Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam, were entranced as rock legend Rick…
September’s full harvest moon will pair with Saturn
Get ready for a celestial double treat. The first full moon of the fall season will reach peak…
Spin Cycle: A cover-up in Canada
Spin Cycle is Escape Collective’s news digest, published every Monday and Friday. You can read it on the…
Hubble Space Telescope finishes 200,000 Earth orbits in style — while studying a warped star explosion
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has now circled Earth 200,000 times, marking another extraordinary milestone for an observatory that…
Gravitational forces inside Earth drag some decades out — and make others fly by
Zhang, H. & Dumberry, M. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10999-2 (2026). Article Google Scholar Istas, M., Gillet, N., Finlay, C. C.,…