Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket
TOKYO — Japan’s experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as…
Brown bear seriously injures woman at her home near Kenai
A brown bear seriously injured a woman in her front yard near Kenai shortly after she let her…
Textbooks May Need Rewriting After Researchers Debunk a Core Chemistry Concept
A new study suggests that a long-standing concept used to explain how electrons behave in molecules may not…
ACT government signs deal to buy CSIRO’s Ginninderra site, plans to build 3,000 new homes
The CSIRO and the ACT government have reached a deal for the long-awaited sale of the Ginninderra Experiment…
‘People got into a panic’: Reactions to shaking caused by static fire testing at Starbase
A SpaceX test at its Starbase launch site near Boca Chica sent a loud boom across South Padre…
Black bear mange sightings surge in Southwest Virginia
Black bear mange sightings on rise in Southwest Virginia Black bear sightings are at their peak in Southwest…
In June 2026, the James Webb telescope read the dawn and dusk skies of WASP-121b separately and found one side hotter and stripped of water, the other cooler and possibly cloudy, on a world where it can rain liquid rock
The James Webb Space Telescope has tracked how the atmosphere of a distant gas giant changes from longitude…
New Hawaii law recognizes conservation sanctuary to protect native species
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Gov. Josh Green on Thursday signed legislation formally recognizing the Hawaiʻi Conservation Sanctuary, a nonprofit…
China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium
HELSINKI — A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare…
Game wardens track new 350-pound bear as Poconos population expands into Lehigh Valley | Northampton County
Bear traffic is at its peak in June and July as more sightings and nuisance reports are made.…
Saturn’s rings are so young that dinosaurs would have looked up at a ringless planet, and measurements from the Cassini probe suggest they are being pulled into the planet fast enough to disappear entirely
Saturn’s rings look permanent. They are not, in either direction. The best readings from the Cassini spacecraft suggest…
Earth’s largest waterfall is not Niagara or Victoria Falls—it lies entirely underwater in the Denmark Strait, where cold, dense water cascades roughly 3,500 metres down the ocean floor, a drop more than three times the height of Angel Falls.
The largest waterfall on Earth has no viewing platform, no mist rising into sunlight, and no tourist boats…