New osprey chick at Cumbria’s Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve
An already record number of osprey chicks hatched at a nature reserve has turned out to be higher…
NASA Study Warns It’s Easier Than Expected for Astronauts to Contaminate the Moon
People might have told you that the Moon is something of a harsh mistress. Putting aside what you…
India is turning to ancient water systems as modern ones run dry
The stepwell, a large storage tank where water is accessed through flights of steps, is part of a…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
2026-08-22T10:05:12.444Z Where will the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse be visible? The partial phase of a lunar eclipse…
Quantum Fluctuations Break a Crystal’s Symmetry Rules
Illuminating the crystal with light with a built-in sense of rotation (white beam) reveals regions where the star-of-David…
Teesside swan released back into the wild after losing her mate
The bird was brought to Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary by police last week, after her partner was found dead…
Voyager 2 discovered ten moons when it flew past Uranus in 1986. Nearly 40 years later, James Webb found one it missed: Uranus’s 29th known moon, a tiny world only about 10 kilometres wide hiding among the planet’s inner moons.
When Voyager 2 crossed the Uranian system on 24 January 1986, its cameras found ten moons that had…
This year’s devastating El Niño event could be the ‘strongest in a lifetime’
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Thousands of tourists now crowd beaches around China’s Wenchang spaceport to watch rockets launch, turning a once-secretive space programme into a booming mix of tourism, art and entertainment
CZ-7 launch from Wenchang (Wiki) Something that used to be treated as a secret is no more a…
A New Quantum Blueprint Could Make States Easier To Tell Apart
Researchers developed a mathematical framework for designing non-Gaussian quantum states that can be made perfectly distinguishable. Credit: Shutterstock…
A new snake species discovered in the jungle has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash; here’s why scientists chose the rock star’s name
A new snake species discovered in the jungle has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash (Image…
China’s new moon mission could unlock secret of lunar ice: Why that matters | Space News
China is set to launch its Chang’e-7 unmanned, robotic space mission, possibly as early as Monday morning, to…