SpaceX recovers Starship from the Indian Ocean a month after launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently…
Tiny reef fish flourished beside islands filled with seabirds; where rats removed the birds, the entire underwater food chain took another route
Ecosystems work with each other no matter how far or disconnected they are. Animals and birds have impacts…
Microplastics have reached one of Earth’s most isolated ecosystems: Indian Ocean animals carried up to 14.7 times more particles than Pacific specimens
Life on Earth isn’t just about the flora and fauna anymore, microplastics have entered the equation deep enough…
Six helicopters will drop 550 tons of poison on this island: Why a project is spending $10 million on this exercise |
Mice are some of the most invasive animals on the planet. Quick to enter and escape they have…
Soviet spacecraft built to land on Venus in 1972 spent 53 years orbiting Earth and finally returned without burning up |
A Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus in 1972 finally completed its journey more than half a…
For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die
The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique…
Underwater whale graveyard is home to jellyfish and bone-eating worms
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars…
Trump considers buying Chagos Islands from Mauritius, Telegraph reports
The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on…
Concerns mount in China’s space sector that Musk’s Starship will be a failure
There are growing doubts within China’s space sector that Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket being developed by…
Geophysicists solve the mystery of a 75-year-old ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean
South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of Earth’s strangest depressions, a gravity hole so deep…
Middle East states eye transport resilience with new logistics corridor to bypass Hormuz
Middle Eastern governments are dusting off decades-old proposals for overland oil and gas pipelines, and urgently drawing up…
Trump issues Hormuz ultimatum, threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants
US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen…