Mystery spheres found on Australian beach are likely space debris
Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are “suspected…
Fears for delicate wildlife after A-list bash rages at Hamptons beach
Authorities feared for the lives of vulnerable birds after an A-list party raged on a Hamptons beach. Alix…
The rocks at the very summit of Mount Everest are limestone formed on an ancient ocean floor, and fossils of trilobites, sea lilies, and tiny crustaceans have been found in samples collected just six metres below the top of the highest point on Earth
The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest…
Teesside Sewage leak sea swimming ban lifted
Advice to avoid swimming in the sea after a sewage pipe burst has been lifted. Untreated sewage leaked…
Rubin Observatory begins its 10-year sky survey
A telescope on a mountaintop in Chile has begun recording the most detailed time-lapse of the night sky…
Trump administration weakens protections for threatened animal species
The Trump administration finalized a major change on Friday to how threatened species are considered in agency actions,…
James Webb has caught at least five galaxies colliding about 800 million years after the Big Bang, flinging heavy elements out into space far earlier than any model predicted — evidence the early universe was already messy and mature when it should still have been simple
A galaxy merger found by the James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less orderly…
Support for climate and biodiversity policies differs across cultural worldviews in Japan
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5 C. Science 365, eaaw6974…
Elon Musk Says His Goal Is for SpaceX to Be Worth More than the Entire Earth
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech SpaceX…
Watch Asian swamp eels emerge from the mud for feeding time
The Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) is an unusual freshwater fish with a snake-like body and no scales.…
In March 2026, a strange ‘chirp’ from a distant dying star proved to be something never seen so clearly before: the birth of a magnetar — a newborn neutron star so magnetic it could wipe every credit card on Earth from halfway to the Moon
For the first time, astronomers have found compelling evidence of a magnetar being born inside a supernova. A…
Southern Water hosepipe ban criticised over Southampton leak
People living at Riverdene Place have spent nine months complaining about water bubbling up to the surface, flowing…