Astronomers Hear the Faint Whispers of Cosmic Hydrogen from the Distant Past.
The MeerKAT radio telescope, composed of 64 dish antennas located in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, was built…
Feisty survivor: Sage the rare olive ridley turtle is going home after ghost net ordeal
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The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a very bad day, not its normal state.
Voyager 2 reached Uranus on 24 January 1986 and remains the only spacecraft ever to have visited the…
It’s one of the oldest and driest deserts in the world, is 5 times drier than the Sahara – and it’s about to bloom with millions of flowers
Stretching along an over 1,000km-long strip of land in northern Chile, west of the Andes, is the Atacama…
German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe | Aerospace industry
A German startup has launched the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, a milestone for…
A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Current gravitational wave observatories aren’t sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can only…
Deer startles East Texas deputy in viral dashcam video
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The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial
The numbers are now trickling in: nearly 2,900 dead in the UK, at least 35,000 dead across Europe.…
On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
Biopsies, aerial drills and a personal pizza: a day in the life of a shark scientist | Well actually
“Sharks are not monsters, they just need better PR,” writes Jasmin Graham. And she should know: Graham is…
At Denmark’s Port of Aalborg, designers cut a retired wind-turbine blade into a curved roof that now shelters bicycles — a second life for the composite piece turbines can’t easily recycle
At the Port of Aalborg in northern Denmark, a section of decommissioned wind-turbine blade sits on steel supports…
Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissions.
The sunlight arriving at Earth this moment left the Sun’s visible surface a little over eight minutes ago.…