Huge whale ‘supergroups’ show numbers are rebounding. The Iran war threatens that
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Earth had life for roughly three billion years before it produced enough oxygen to be detectable from space, which means NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope could be staring directly at an inhabited world and see nothing
For most of Earth’s inhabited history, an astronomer on another world could have studied our atmosphere and missed…
How does a planet spin so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its entire year, while the clouds above it race all the way around in just four days?
Venus appears to keep two incompatible clocks. Its solid surface takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once…
New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
Iconic Australian frog found with rare color-shifting iridescent skin
Blue is one of nature’s rarest colors. When it does appear, it is usually created by microscopic structures…
Did a Sun-like star quietly swallow one of its own planets, leaving behind a spike of lithium it should have lost long ago?
An aging star is carrying a chemical signature it has no business still having: a strong line of…
Nearly all fronts of Spain’s wildfires contained as over 100,000 people remain affected
Ilayda Cakirtekin 26 July 2026•Update: 26 July 2026 Spanish authorities said on Sunday that almost all fronts of…
Arts and humanities have a role in understanding space exploration | Space
Where are the arts and humanities in current debates about space research? The physicist Laura Grego tells us…
Scientists Solve a Decades-Old Mystery Inside Atomic Nuclei
A long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics may finally have an answer: unexpected low-energy gamma rays in zinc-70 appear…
In 1850s, house sparrows were introduced to North America to control insects, but the tiny birds quickly spread, became a common sight and turned into one of the continent’s most widespread invasive species
The house sparrow is probably one of the easiest birds to ignore. You see them everywhere. They hop…
Australia’s Clean Energy Boom Is Gathering Speed
Australia has big renewable energy ambitions and is well on its way to shifting dependence away from coal…
‘It’s not rocket science’: a day in the life of a Nasa behavioral health scientist | Well actually
Dr Suzanne Bell, an organizational psychologist, leads the Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center.…