A 10-Year Sky Survey Begins Filming A ‘Cosmic Movie,’ Cyborg Cockroaches Go For A Dive And More Science Stories
This week marked the beginning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a…
Giant Gorilla Maze Celebrates Sir David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday
Wistow Maze in Leicestershire, England features mountain gorilla to celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday – Tom Maddick…
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes over 22 hours to reach it, and it is still sending data back from interstellar space on a power source the size of a car battery
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the…
In Anticipation of New Horizons Entering Interstellar Space, Researchers are Developing a Solar Wind Forecasting Method
The Solar System is surrounded by a vast bubble of plasma created by solar wind flowing outward from…
Here’s Why The Latest Rocket Lab Acquisition Could Shake Up The Entire Space Economy
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), a developer of reusable orbital rockets, recently agreed to acquire Iridium (NASDAQ: IRDM), a…
James Webb Uncovers the Atmosphere of a Hellish Lava World 41 Light-Years Away
Artist’s illustration of lava exoplanet CoRoT-7 b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be…
A Maine couple thought they were about to photograph a moose. Instead, a calf and a bear burst from the woods, and they had seconds to decide whether to intervene
Bear chases moose calf in Telos Township, Maine (Picture credit: Elvia J Malcolm) What began as a quiet…
Free electricity in Australia, and other eco wins this week
The Hambach forest stays After a decades-long fight, one of Germany’s last remaining pieces of intact ancient woodland has…
30 years on, “Independence Day” still proves the versatility of the original “The War of the Worlds”
“Independence Day” definitely isn’t “The War of the Worlds”. The characters are all new, the alien invaders don’t…
People fall ill after swimming in River Derwent
One man, who did not want to be named, said his son – who is in his 20s…
NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it’s…
Saturn used to be listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, found dozens more, and by 2026 the count had exploded to 285 — so many that Saturn now has nearly three times as many confirmed moons as Jupiter.
A few years ago, Saturn was listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, began finding them dozens…