Perseid meteor shower reaches peak: When and where to catch a glimpse
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets – a snowball…
World Lion Day: Lions and communities face a growing struggle to coexist
Africa’s lions are running out of space. Habitat loss, shrinking prey populations and growing conflict with communities are…
The Odds of Finding Water on Mars
Where would you land on Mars if the water had to be underneath you? It is not an…
First osprey breeding at RSPB nature reserve in England ‘incredibly’ exciting
The RSPB is celebrating conservation success after ospreys bred at one of the charity’s nature reserves in England…
On this day in space! Aug. 10, 1972: A ‘Great Daylight Fireball’ lights up the sky over North America
On Aug. 10, 1972, an Earth-grazing fireball burst through the sky over North America. It didn’t hit the…
El Niño Alters Marine Life in the Pacific
As of June 2026, El Niño has officially arrived. This naturally recurring phenomenon is characterized by warmer-than-normal water temperatures…
Neutron Launch Chances This Year Narrowing, Rocket Lab Says
Neutron Launch Chances This Year Narrowing, Rocket Lab Says | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Michael…
Robins are more likely to survive the hot weather if you leave 1 food outside in August
Robins need a lot of food in August as they can actually struggle to forage in hot weather,…
The stripes on Perseverance’s parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing at a spot on Earth
A parachute about 70 feet across has to snap open at faster-than-sound speed in Mars’s thin air. When…
World Earthquake Report for Monday, 10 August 2026
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 00:24 | 57 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor Worldwide earthquakes above magnitude 3 during…
In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost perfectly.
The eclipse of 21 August 2017 was, in the specific sense that matters to astronomers, an ordinary eclipse.…
Engineer’s 88-pound trebuchet makes projectile fly at supersonic speeds
UK-based engineer Tom Stanton has successfully built a trebuchet that can send projectiles flying at supersonic speeds. Although,…