NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here's why it's so cool. - Yahoo
"We're going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again," a NASA scientist recently predicted.
A Texas Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion - Gadget Review
Texas deputy searched 83,000 Flock Safety cameras for a woman who had an abortion — no warrant required, crossing state lines freely.
Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up. - Quanta Magazine
New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.
Scientists Just Watched the Deep Ocean Floor Tear Itself Apart in Real Time - Yahoo
A new deep-sea probe witnessed the silent, violent magma flows that heal our planet’s scars.
July's full Buck Moon leads a mini planet parade through the summer sky tonight - Space
The July full moon rises tonight with Venus, Saturn Mercury and Mars!
NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess - WIRED
We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.
New twist on the Einstein problem reveals unexpected physics - Phys.org
A shape that captured worldwide attention for solving a decades-old mathematical puzzle has returned to the spotlight. While the shape's properties allowed it to solve previous puzzles, little is known about its other associated properties, creating opportuni…
Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time - European Space Agency
Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Scientists discover 210-million-year-old dinosaur in Zimbabwe - Phys.org
A newly discovered dinosaur from Zimbabwe is offering fresh clues to how the animals diversified, suggesting they spread across distinct ecosystems in southern Africa, scientists said Wednesday.
A Black Hole Singularity May Be a 3D Surface Where General Relativity Goes to Die - ScienceAlert
What lies beyond a black hole's event horizon is a mystery.
Antarctica averages minus 55°C at Vostok Station, yet a Lake Ontario-sized body of water remains liquid b - The Times of India
Science News: Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth, featuring a deadly combination of extreme temperatures, high elevation and ice-covered terrain. The Russ.
The cost of memory: How organisms balance thinking and sensing - Phys.org
Remembering the past can help living organisms make better decisions, but memory comes at a cost. Whether it is an animal searching for food or a single cell responding to its surroundings, storing and using information requires energy and resources. So, when…
Finally! After 20 Years, Major Quantum Entanglement Theory Has Been Experimentally Confirmed - Yahoo
"Spooky action at a distance" is getting closer to fruition every day.
One of Earth’s most explosive supervolcanoes is recharging with fresh magma - ScienceDaily
Deep beneath Japan’s mostly submerged Kikai caldera, scientists have discovered a vast magma reservoir that appears to be filling again. The volcano produced the largest eruption of the Holocene 7,300 years ago, and seismic surveys now show that fresh magma h…
Saber-Toothed Cats Became Deformed Before Dying Out - Newser
New study documents spinal deformities, possibly related to inbreeding
Cassini was deliberately flown into Saturn in September 2017 while still working perfectly, because the alternative was letting a dying spacecraft carrying Earth bacteria eventually drift into Enceladus, a moon with a liquid ocean and hydrothermal vents on its fl - Space Daily
Protecting an alien ocean meant destroying humanity's most successful planetary explorer while it was still alive.
"Look at that, 5ft from the boat." Skipper spots one of the weirdest fish on the planet off the coast of England - BBC Wildlife Magazine
Skipper Kurt Lander saw two sunfish in the shipping lanes off the coast of Sussex.
Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble - AP News
The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has run into trouble. Katalyst Space Technologies said Tuesday that its Link satellite is experiencing thruster problems and has gone into an uncontrollable spin that is disrupting commu…
This Volcano in Antarctica Is Spewing out $6,000 Worth of Gold Dust Per Day — But You Can't Go Get It - ZME Science
Even if you could get there, you're not getting that gold.
NASA captures rare phenomenon of a black hole 'devouring' a star - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
Our Milky Way galaxy appears to have flipped 90 degrees long ago. But why? - Space
The flip may have even altered the solar system's orbit around the center of the galaxy.
Ultracold neutrons don't disappear into the mirror world - Phys.org
For decades, a theory in physics has postulated the existence of a mirror world whose interaction with our own reality is extremely feeble. The particles in this mirror universe are also thought to be candidates for dark matter. Researchers at the Paul Scherr…
Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules - iflscience.com
The Moon is about to get a new crater courtesy of Elon Musk, and astronomers are ready to watch it happen.
Archaeologists Thought These Early Cannibals Mostly Ate Children. They Were Wrong - Gizmodo
Homo antecessor fossils suggested that these early humans ate their young. New findings suggest that they also ate adults.
‘A moment in time’: Fossil footprints shed new light on the extinct ‘Nutcracker Man’ - CNN
New evidence suggests the extinct hominin Nutcracker Man was nearly 2 feet taller and dozens of pounds heavier than once thought and sometimes traveled in groups.
All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful? - Nature
Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit in wake of Starship test flight (video) - Space
Liftoff occurred at 11:51 a.m. ET on Saturday (July 25).
New research shows how 'hot electrons' can reshape metals in billionths of a second - Phys.org
Researchers at The University of Manchester have revealed how intense electronic excitation can trigger rapid structural changes in metals—without heating the atomic lattice—offering new insight into ultrafast materials behavior.
Tabby's star may be orbited by a planetary-mass companion - Phys.org
By analyzing data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and conducting new radial velocity measurements, U.K. and French astronomers have found evidence that the mysterious Tabby's star may be orbited by an object about nine times more mass…
ISS meets Venus in incredible daylight photo photo of the day for July 28, 2026 - Space
"The thing that inspired me to capture Venus with the ISS is the fact that nobody has done it before."
Chemistry Nobel laureate wants humanity to focus on mining ‘invisible gold’ all around us - Chemistry World
Susumu Kitagawa says that his vision is that one day porous materials will allow us to tap air for raw materials
Amateur Astronomer Discovers Ancient Meteorite Impact Using Google Maps - Gizmodo
Scientists confirmed that the crater dates back around 390 million years ago.
"It doesn't reach sexual maturity until 150 years old and can be pregnant for a humongous 18 years." The 10 longest living animals on the planet - BBC Wildlife Magazine
The longest-living animals on Earth are predominantly marine creatures that reside in the deep sea, which slows their metabolism and reduces disease
Dracula Orchid: The Gothic-Looking Flower That Poachers Can't Get Enough of - ScienceAlert
In the misty cloud forests of the Andes, there's one particular genus that wildlife traders can't get enough of.
You're Actually A Genius If You Can Score Higher Than 87% On This Fifth-Grade Biology Test - BuzzFeed
If you know nothing about how your own body works, that's pretty embarrassing.
2 ‘Forgetful’ Habits That Mean You’re Intelligent, By A Psychologist - Forbes
Forgetting names and details isn't a failing mind at work. Two habitual patterns of forgetfulness reveal how efficiently your brain edits what actually matters.
There's a stretch of desert in Chile so dry that a single rain event turned up in four years of instrument records, and its soil fools life-detection hardware in precisely the way Mars does, so NASA spent four field seasons rehearsing a rover mission on it - Space Daily
Before NASA could search for life on Mars, it needed to master an earthly wasteland so hostile that it barely registers rain—and where even the microbes have given up.
NASA selects successor to CAPSTONE lunar mission - SpaceNews
NASA has selected Advanced Space to fly a successor to a cislunar smallsat mission that will test rendezvous and proximity operations around the moon.
Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings - ScienceDaily
A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered charcoal inside black pigments once thought to contain only minerals, allowing them to use radiocarbon dating. The results show that a bison …
Moon's thick crust could amplify elusive gravitational-wave signals - Phys.org
Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are produced when massive objects in the cosmos accelerate or collide. By detecting these waves, astrophysicists can study various cosmic events, including black hole mergers, neutron star c…
Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution - The Conversation
To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.
A NASA instrument the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover, converted Martian air into 122 grams of breathable oxygen between 2021 and 2023 — enough to keep a small dog alive for 10 hours, and proof that astronauts could one day make t - Space Daily
For the first time, scientists proved that Mars itself can supply the oxygen astronauts will need to breathe—and to fuel their rockets home.
'Crazy idea' succeeds: Scientists monitor space junk with radio telescopes - Space
"That's the first time that's ever been done."
An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined - WIRED
Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming.
JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here's What It Found… - Yahoo
Tricksy little hobbitses.
10 Terrifying Forces Scientists Recreated in the Lab - Listverse
The mad scientist is a classic stereotype in cartoons and comic books. We've all watched a wild-haired character pour something into a beaker, only to have it blow up in their face. In reality, researchers follow strict safety guidelines during experiments. T…