A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 6-78 mission launches from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2025. Credit: U.S. Space Force photo by Gwendolyn Kurzen, public ...
In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
Concept illustration of a laser-driven lightsail. This is an artist's concept, not a spacecraft that has reached relativistic speed. Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives. Source and project information. A ...
The footage runs just under three minutes. A wolf swims out from a rocky shoreline on the central coast of British Columbia, grabs a floating buoy in her jaws, and turns back toward the beach. What ...
Picture two versions of Earth. One is the planet outside your window, running its rainforests and coral reefs and pollinators for free, no bill attached. The other is a three-acre copy sealed under ...
Somewhere on the planet right now, somebody is the last living person who can tell a particular joke and have it land. The punchline runs on a word that exists in exactly one language, and that ...
A year 70 million years ago held more days than a year does now, yet it lasted essentially as long. That sounds like a contradiction until you separate the two things we lump together as time. The ...
The steam has been coming out of the ground for as long as anyone has lived in the region. Farmers in central Tuscany noticed it centuries ago — thin plumes of white vapour rising directly from cracks ...
For months, the data looked like an ordinary shark. A pop-up satellite archival tag attached to a pregnant porbeagle shark off Cape Cod tracked the animal through its usual pattern: diving deep during ...
Every photograph of Jupiter tells a small lie. There is a clean round edge, a striped face, weather organised into neat belts and zones. It looks like a place, the way any rocky planet does, and a ...
JWST imaging and spectroscopy of MoM-BH*-1. The source is point-like in NIRCam observations, while NIRSpec reveals its extreme Balmer break and hydrogen features. Credit: Naidu et al. (2025), CC BY ...
Representative image of stars visible in a dark night sky. Photo by ning wong on Pexels. A child who can count 250 stars from home tonight may be able to see fewer than 100 from the same place at age ...