How an abandoned water park became a lightning rod for the Canberra community
If you grew up in Canberra, you might have fond memories of the capital’s only outdoor water park,…
In 2010, NASA’s asteroid probe touched Bennu for seconds, sank almost 20 inches into loose rock and blasted roughly six tons of debris away |
This mosaic of Bennu was assembled from observations gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that orbited the asteroid for…
A man thought he’d found a stray kitten. It turned out to be a new species of wild cat
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Kingfish flown to Tasmania for Bass Strait aquaculture research trial
Placed in oxygenated bags then packed into insulated boxes, 15,000 juvenile kingfish have made the 3,000-kilometre journey from…
Space Explorers’ Celebration: Join space legends and visionaries on Oct. 2 in Huntsville
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Space enthusiasts and community leaders will gather in the Rocket City next month to…
Dolphins appear to ‘kiss’ off Roker, North East coast
The dolphins were photographed touching noses off Roker last weekend as a pod swam close to shore. Dolphins…
50 years ago, NASA rolled out its 1st space shuttle Enterprise. The shuttle ‘was one of the things that really inspired me,’ ISS astronaut says
Like most test pilots, Jack Hathaway was always looking for a faster and more capable winged vehicle to…
Not so reliant, Robins: Britons may see fewer redbreasts this Christmas as the long, hot summer has left them ‘drought-exhausted’
By KATIE HODGE Published: 16:47 EDT, 19 September 2026 | Updated: 18:36 EDT, 19 September 2026 They are…
NASA budgeted 200 kilograms of fuel for Roman’s first course correction, but the telescope used only 18. Combined with extra fuel loaded before launch and further expected savings, that could stretch its 10-year fuel plan to at least 22 years.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope began its journey to the Sun-Earth L2 region with a propellant budget…
Reef fish on a Curaçao coral patch never bolted from a black disk expanding on an iPad below two metres a second, and that threshold sits just under the speeds at which bar jacks on the same reef were filmed attacking
Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of the thing…
Scientists build a DNA computer that can perform calculations in a drop of water
Scientists have built a DNA-powered computer that can perform calculations using billions of molecules in a tiny drop…
The Worldward Voyage of Arctic Terns
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” —Matsuo Bashō There are moments in…