The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years. One of the biggest hurdles was the very first one: How did life emerge from a primordial soup of stuff that very much wasn’t alive?A radical new … Read more
In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo. Excavations of the pits have yielded bones of species that once roamed the area tens of thousands of years … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported.Although no one observed the actual 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the debris plume resulting … Read more
We may owe our very existence to an ancient poop explosion. If the earliest animals hadn’t been such prolific poopers, life might not have diversified into all the weird and wonderful forms we see today. That’s the conclusion reached by a new review study published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.The team of scientists in Australia and … Read more
It’s been a particularly apocalyptic summer. Relentless, record-shattering heatwaves, untamable wildfires, and deadly floods are just some of the disasters that have made global headlines in the past few months. In a warming world, these extreme events are beginning to feel commonplace. But according to a staggering analysis, it’s probably going to get much worse … Read more
Scientists will track stray rocket parts striking the Moon to study crater formation and lunar dust from cosmic impacts.Published On 5 Aug 20265 Aug 2026A four-tonne chunk of debris the size of a school bus from a SpaceX rocket has crashed into the Moon, according to tracking data, creating a new crater on the lunar … Read more
The full moon of August 2026 will occur at 12:18 a.m. (0416 GMT) on Aug. 28, as the lunar disk shines directly opposite the sun in Earth’s sky.Its arrival will trigger a breathtaking lunar eclipse late in the month, which will be visible across the Americas and parts of Africa and Europe as Earth passes … Read more
Meet the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative — a passion-driven citizen science endeavour that shares breathtaking views of total solar eclipses while capturing valuable data on the sun’s incandescent atmosphere.At the heart of our solar system is a burning ball of superheated gas 100 times the width of Earth, with a thermonuclear reaction raging at its … Read more
Without science, humanity never would have left caves. Computer technology, medical breakthroughs, weapons of war, and knowledge of outer space all came into being thanks to the wonders of science. The human imagination is limitless, and science is how we turn our most whimsical sci-fi fantasies into reality. Progress comes with a cost, though, and … Read more
Pluto’s orbit around the Sun is a long, elliptical journey that lasts 248 Earth years. Right now, Pluto is gradually traveling farther and farther away from our host star. And as it does so, its atmosphere seems to be changing slowly, new findings suggest. When New Horizons made its flyby of Pluto in 2015, the … Read more