SSpace Read More India’s Rocket Launches Costliest Among Major Space Powers: Cambridge StudyAugust 23, 2026 New Delhi: As India marks its third National Space Day, celebrating the success of Chandrayaan-3 and the country’s…
PPhysics Read More Physics says a spacecraft with mass can never reach the speed of light: as it accelerates closer to c, the energy required rises without limit, so light speed isn’t merely difficult to reach — for massive objects, it’s physically unattainable.August 23, 2026 A powerful enough engine can make a spacecraft move faster and faster. That familiar sentence contains a trap:…
WWildlife Read More This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to ageAugust 23, 2026 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
EEnvironment Read More Sewage alerts in place at East Runton and Gorleston beachAugust 23, 2026 Gorleston and East Runton have seen sewage discharged into the sea from storm overflows. The alerts have been…
SSpace Read More Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed tripletAugust 23, 2026 In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
WWildlife Read More Researchers have documented mugger crocodiles and American alligators positioning sticks and twigs on or around their snouts during birds’ nesting season — apparently using the sought-after nesting material as bait to lure birds within striking distance.August 23, 2026 A crocodile lies still in shallow water near a colony of nesting birds, most of its body underwater,…
EEnvironment Read More U.S. nearly encroached on Canadian sovereignty during tariff talks: Quebec premierAugust 23, 2026 Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
SSpace Read More This Star Whips Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole Faster and Closer Than Any Other Known StarAugust 23, 2026 The universe is full of cool and interesting things, like black hole stars and nightmare planets that get…
WWildlife Read More Fur seal’s death marks first Australian mainland mammal fatality from spreading H5 bird flu strain | Bird fluAugust 23, 2026 A long-nosed fur seal has died from H5 bird flu in South Australia, marking the first confirmed case…
SScience Read More NASA is set to launch a telescope on August 30 that could detect around 100,000 new worlds — more than all previous planet-hunting observatories have found combined — using a camera that captures 100 times more sky than Hubble in a single shot.August 23, 2026 On 30 August 2026, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy is scheduled to carry NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
EEnvironment Read More There Are Fungi in The Ocean, And They May Be Way More Important Than We Realized : ScienceAlertAugust 23, 2026 Hidden inside tree trunks, between grains of soil, deep within our bodies, and below our feet, fungi seem…
SSpace Read More Rocket Lab and MIT are preparing a privately funded probe to plunge through Venus’s clouds looking for organic chemistry linked to possible life. It will get only about five minutes to take measurements before descending into increasingly lethal conditions — and the entire mission has been estimated at under $10 million.August 23, 2026 Rocket Lab’s planned Venus probe is built around an uncomfortable trade: the spacecraft can be small and comparatively…