For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020, after cables holding its 900-ton instrument platform snapped one by one, the entire structure gave way and crashed straight t - Space Daily
The collapse of an iconic radio telescope offered a rare glimpse into how scientific infrastructure fails, and what we l...
'There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity': Physicists sent 20,000 atoms into free fall to prove Einstein's 'happiest thought' - Live Science
Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at...
2 spacecraft will soon reach Mercury after 8 years in space. Here's what BepiColombo can do - Space
The tiny planet hides big mysteries that scientists can't wait to tackle....
Why doesn't Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer - Phys.org
Venus is one of the solar system's most unusual planets. It may sometimes be called "Earth's twin" because of its simila...
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects - Space Daily
A teenager weaponized a decade of archival telescope data to unearth 1.5 million celestial mysteries that professional a...
Scientists identify genetic markers linked to Big Five personality traits - NewsNation
“Personality seems to be relevant nearly everywhere you look," lead author of the study Ted Schwaba said....
Comet McNaught put on a surprise show this summer: Here's how to spot it before it fades - Space
Comet McNaught brightened dramatically during two outbursts around perihelion as it made a close approach to the sun....
What winter means on Mars: temperatures can plunge to −130°C, carbon dioxide falls as snow or freezes directly onto the ground, as much as 16% of the atmosphere becomes part of the winter polar cap, and air pressure planet-wide swings by roughly 25% o - Space Daily
Mars winter can turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into snow and frost, shifting trillions of tonnes of gas into a polar ca...
New map of a male fly central nervous system includes all 166,000 neurons — and enables direct comparisons to female fly brain - Live Science
A new map of the adult male fruit fly brain and nerve cord includes over 166,000 neurons and the millions of connections...
A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage - AP News
Two Mercury-bound spacecraft are in the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage. The linked spacecraft — one E...
When Georgia Tech scientists tipped out a tumbler of Titan-like organic grains, 2 to 5 percent refused to fall, held to the walls by static electricity. In comparable experiments with terrestrial sand and volcanic ash, nothing stuck. - Space Daily
Organic grain analogues clung to a nitrogen-filled tumbler after becoming charged, but later tholin tests show why the r...
My First Moxie (Day 147) - The Trek
The Om Dome shuttle returned a big group of hikers to the trail around 8 AM. We somehow fit roughly 16 people in the sma...
An ancient 'supervolcano' has been found hiding beneath eastern England. But experts say there's not enough evidence to call it that. - Live Science
Geologists recently identified a 454.4 million-year-old volcano on England's east coast, but whether the structure can b...
Nearly 300 metres beneath Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert, miners tunnelling for ore broke into a chamber filled with crystals as long as a bus — giant beams of gypsum up to 11 metres long, hidden underwater for hundreds of thousands of years until mine pum - Space Daily
The discovery challenges everything we thought we knew about how giant crystals form — and raises urgent questions abo...
‘It was very surreal,’ UNC Asheville researchers make a discovery in drug-resistant staph - WLOS
What began as an undergraduate research project at UNC Asheville has resulted in a discovery that has landed the team a ...
Leading Theory For How Life on Earth Began Is 'Highly Unlikely', Says Contentious New Paper - ScienceAlert
If you ask a scientist how life appeared on Earth, they will usually begin the story in one of two places: A warm, miner...
Scientists Bent Graphene Almost as Sharply as Atoms Allow and Something Strange Happened - ZME Science
A long-sought effect emerges when graphene is bent to the max....
Something weird's going on at Saturn. Hubble has spotted a 10-sided geometric formation in the planet's clouds - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a view of a 10-sided decagon feature in the clouds at Saturn's south po...
The ISS won't be around forever. Here's how to see it from Earth - USA Today
While you wait for the launch of the Crew-13 astronauts to the International Space Station, here's how you can spot the ...
Salt may have helped turn Earth into a frozen world 700 million years ago - Phys.org
Earth may have been pushed deeper into a global deep freeze by something surprisingly ordinary: salt. Around 700 million...
Was Dark Matter Detected? - Medium
All it takes is one event beyond a reasonable doubt to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe....
Thailand’s ‘Jurassic Park’ shines light on dinosaur evolution - Bangkok Post
KHON KAEN - A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below...
Follow the Roman Space Telescope's journey with NASA's online tracker - Mashable
Watch the spacecraft fly to its frigid outpost....
The Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite - SciTechDaily
Growing evidence that early human relatives do not fit neatly into traditional categories is prompting a proposal to exp...