Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon | SpaceX
A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar…
Titan’s air is four times thicker than ours and its gravity a seventh as strong, which means a human being there could in principle fly under their own muscle power — strap on wings, run a few paces, and flap
Picture standing wearing a heated suit, with homemade wings clipped to your arms. You take a few running…
Huge great white spotted traveling off US and Canada as shark sightings surge | US news
The largest tagged male great white shark in the Atlantic Ocean has been identified traveling up the US…
The International Space Station circles the planet every 92 minutes, so its crew passes through 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in a single working day, and the only way human bodies cope is for the station to ignore all of it and run on Greenwich time with the window shades down
Every 45 minutes or so, the light outside the International Space Station changes sides. A blue line gathers…
Dead trees and searing-hot benches: Rome’s multimillion-dollar cooling piazza shows the challenges of brutal heat
Rome, Italy — The new trees meant to provide much-needed shade in Rome’s Piazza Risorgimento were burnt to a…
FAA rule changes on rocket launches could impact Louisiana | Business News
The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing sweeping rule changes that would allow aerospace companies seeking to launch rockets…
US scientists reveal hidden magnetism in ultrathin quantum material
A team of U.S. researchers has uncovered evidence of a newly proposed form of magnetism in an ultrathin…
To protect endangered mountain gorillas, this wildlife vet empowers their human neighbors
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was just 26 when she became the first wildlife veterinarian in her home country of…
The deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth reached just over 12 kilometres before the rock at the bottom turned so hot and plastic that it flowed back into the shaft, and for two decades of effort the drill had covered about two tenths of one percent of the distance to the centre
The deepest vertical borehole ever drilled reached 12,262 metres into the Kola Peninsula in 1989. Work had begun…
‘It was hell’: French communities are on the front lines of Europe’s new wildfires
The flames came quick and strong. Pushed by westerly winds, they’d already devastated Saumos, France, 14 kilometres away,…
APOD: 2026 July 31 – NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation…
French National Quantum Update: July 2026
Executive Summary France’s quantum ecosystem continued to expand in July 2026 through a combination of government oversight, industrial…