China on track to launch Mars sample-return mission in 2028: 'If accurate, this represents a Sputnik moment' - Space
"China will not only grab the headlines but may be the first to find evidence of life on another planet."...
One hydrophone sitting 891 meters down in Monterey Canyon, wired to shore by 52 kilometers of cable, recorded 2,111 days out of 2,192 between July 2015 and June 2021, and humpback song climbed from 34 percent of days to 76 while blue whale song fel - Space Daily
A single hydrophone bolted to the seafloor of Monterey Bay has produced six years of near-continuous acoustic data on ba...
In March 2025 a French Navy drone was mapping the seabed south of Saint-Tropez when its sonar picked up something large that nobody had recorded. A camera sent down after it found a merchant ship from the 1500s lying 2,567 meters down, the deepest - Space Daily
The accidental discovery of a 500-year-old merchant ship in the deepest waters off France raises questions about how man...
Homeowner spots bees packing 'cement' into front door, learns they're building egg chambers - Yahoo
"They build multiple cells inside that hole, each with an egg and some pollen as provisions."...
Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place - CNN
A trove of fossilized eggs reveals that the largest dinosaurs to walk Earth could reproduce far from ideal nesting areas...
Rice University physicists used a grain-of-sand-sized magnet levitated above a superconductor cooled to near absolute zero to search for ultraheavy dark matter. Results presented in September 2026 found no signal but probed particles approximately 10 milli - Space Daily
A magnetically levitated sensor extended the ultraheavy dark-matter search by seven orders of magnitude in mass reach, s...
NASA technique for manipulating satellite photos now reveals ancient images - Phys.org
High in the central tower of Angkor Wat, an ancient Cambodian temple, paintings depict horseback riders and a traditiona...
Did Venus eat its own moon? - Space
"An interesting aspect is that a heavier moon is destroyed faster, since a massive moon would drain Venus's spin so effi...
Kīlauea Volcano Eruption Update for Tuesday, September 8 - Big Island Video News
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A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents. - Space Daily
A lost shipment of bath toys became an accidental oceanographic instrument, revealing decades of currents and gyre patte...
Humans may become Martians. Scientist reveals how evolution will morph our bodies on Mars - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A review of Scott Solomon's book 'Becoming Martian' and a Q&A with the author. How will humans evolve when living on Mar...
Astrophotographer captures jaw-dropping view of the Crescent Nebula - Space
Astrophotographer Kevin Boardman spent more than 16 hours capturing the intricate filaments of the Crescent Nebula....
Plants' response to rising CO₂ could put the brakes on dryland expansion - Phys.org
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Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64 - Gizmodo
Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it play ...
NASA'S Webb Telescope Captures Detailed View Of Lion Nebula, Revealing Its Dying Star - NDTV
Using its NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), Webb has revealed a clearer and more detaile...
Beagle 2 went silent on Christmas Day 2003 and was identified 11 years later in Mars-orbit images on Isidis Planitia, having apparently landed successfully and begun deploying its solar panels. The images suggested that one or more panels remained closed - Space Daily
Orbital images suggested Beagle 2 survived its Mars landing but could not communicate. Later modelling refined the solar...
How eggshells can protect spacecraft from space debris - Ars Technica
3D-printed aluminum eggshell arrays filled with water proved more effective at impact resistance....
Cohesin prevents local mixing of condensed euchromatic domains in living human cells - Nature
Single-nucleosome imaging/tracking and super-resolution three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy within euch...
Hubble and Webb find that far-out solar system objects 'remember' the past - Phys.org
For the first time, scientists used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of...
A new game demonstrates quantum advantage with provable classical limits - Phys.org
For decades, physicists have worked to prove the strange predictions of quantum mechanics with real experiments. As quan...
NASA's newest Mars images offer striking clues to Earth's neighbor - Yahoo News Canada
Uncrewed vehicles like the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers (as well as orbiters) have for years captured stunning phot...
SpaceX rocket taxi returns after Roman Telescope launch | Space photo of the day for Sept. 8, 2026 - Space
The Roman Space Telescope began its cosmic journey on Aug. 30. Then, its taxi returned to our planet....
A photon that challenges Einstein: According to current physics, it should never have reached Earth - Phys.org
How did a photon survive a journey of more than 2 billion light-years when, according to known physics, it should have b...
Big supernova dataset challenges dark energy theory - Phys.org
The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, t...