Meet Our Newest Stellar Neighbours That Hid in the Glare of Other Stars
Astronomers have found four new white dwarfs in our solar neighbourhood. Each of them were hiding behind their…
A Star Orbiting Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Tests the Limits of Relativity
Although general relativity is an elegant theory of gravity, we don’t often need to use it. For most…
Rare scenes of a curious Hare caught having breakfast
Guy Belbin, a Dorset Camera Club member who lives just outside the town, was out early one morning…
A radio structure thought for 40 years to tower over the Milky Way’s centre is actually a nearby stellar bubble — not the fossil scar of a black hole eruption
In 1984, radio astronomers reported a loop of emission apparently rising from the centre of the Milky Way.…
Scientists marked this West African coral reef as probably dead in the 1960s; underwater drones found it alive more than 50 metres below the sea
An image of the rediscovered coral reef by Gérard Zinzindohoué (Photo: Gérard Zinzindohoué) A deep-water coral reef off…
New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights
The Snow4Flow campaign, led by the University of Arizona, seeks to measure and model how far and fast glaciers are retreating…
Meet Jimothy, the unusually round Seattle raccoon capturing hearts worldwide
Just a few days after Norway soccer star Erling Haaland made headlines for bringing a taxidermy raccoon back…
In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years. Voyager 1 and 2 are now the only human-made objects in interstellar space, still operating, still transmitting, funded by a team of engineers some of whom have worked on the mission for nearly 50 years
NASA launched Voyager 2 on 20 August 1977 and Voyager 1 on 5 September. The spacecraft were built…
Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters
Putting your own mask on before assisting others was only supposed to be a safety instruction on an…
The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
The Space Force originally estimated the Lane 1 launch providers would compete for at least 30 task orders…
Topological Jackiw-Rebbi states in photonic Van der Waals heterostructures
Theoretical model for guided modes of photonic gratings Assuming continuous translational symmetry in the lateral y direction, the…
Israel clears way for using crocodiles to deter prisonbreaks after new rule change – Firstpost
A controversial proposal to use crocodiles as part of prison security in Israel has moved a step closer…