Authorities investigate another possible mountain lion sighting in San Francisco – NBC Bay Area
A mountain lion sighting near Fell and Baker Saturday night prompted a big response. On Sunday, Animal Care…
Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north
Saturn has a second polygon. Astronomers working with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope report a ten-sided wave —…
How China’s green tech is undercutting Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ oil strategy in Africa
In the US, the push is on to “drill, baby, drill”. In China, the national strategy is to…
A Bright Spot at Mount Michael
Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many…
Magnetism likely played a key role in early solar system formation – Physics World
Magnetism likely played a key role in early solar system formation – Physics World Skip to main content…
Asian Hornets 'established' in South East despite sightings drop – bbc.com
Asian Hornets ‘established’ in South East despite sightings drop bbc.comBeekeepers warn of Asian hornet threat and call for UK…
Astronomers long expected the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide in about 4.5 billion years — but a 2025 study in Nature Astronomy, using Hubble and Gaia data, estimated only a roughly 50–50 chance of the galaxies merging within the next 10 billion years.
The Milky Way’s expected collision with Andromeda became considerably less certain in June 2025. In a Nature Astronomy…
PG&E cuts $2 billion in planned spending over wildfire liability fight
California’s Democratic leaders are facing a fresh standoff with the state’s biggest utility after PG&E announced it would…
APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North…
In the 1980s, fewer than 400 mountain gorillas remained in Central Africa. By 2018, conservation efforts had helped their population cross 1,000 |
The mountain gorilla once appeared to be heading towards a future where seeing one in the wild could…
Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason
A persistent patch of unusually warm tropical ocean helped intensify snowfall over East Antarctica, contributing to a temporary…
Feds seek to ‘streamline’ Arctic oil permitting, ending environment studies of individual projects
The northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is seen on June 26, 2014. (Photo by Bob Wick…