Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots - Ars Technica
Male dragonflies' dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based rules....
Researchers Argue Saturn's Moon Titan Is Perfect for Human Exploration - extremetech.com
What makes Titan more viable than other, closer bodies in our solar system?...
Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion - Nature
Bacillus subtilis biofilms locally disperse by ejecting motile cells through osmotic pressure generated by their poly-γ...
SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s future - SpaceNews
SpaceX launched the latest Transporter rideshare mission July 7 as concerns about its future reach what one rival compan...
'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans - Space
"Whatever it takes to build a lander soonest is what we ought to be doing as a country."...
Evidence of elusive high-energy gravitons in quantum Hall systems - Phys.org
Electrons, negatively charged particles, sometimes coordinate their movements in ways that produce certain collective ex...
Metallic rutile oxides break the rules of cooling - Phys.org
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Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an asteroid on its way to impact Earth - Space
Is it better to deploy a nuclear warhead on an asteroid after a deep crater impact, or a shallow impact?...
Gold isn’t rare on Earth — it’s buried 3,000 kilometres too deep to reach. In 2025, scientists found that more than 99.999% of the planet’s precious metals are locked in the core, while Hawaiian lava carries traces suggesting some of that core material is slowly l - Space Daily
Geochemists at the University of Göttingen have found chemical evidence that material from Earth's core is mixing into ...
We tend to think of Jupiter as permanently giant, but a 2025 study found it used to be twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times more powerful, and it is still quietly shrinking by about 2 centimetres every year - Space Daily
Jupiter was roughly twice its current size, and by some estimates as much as two and a half times, around 3.8 million ye...
Astronauts catch glimpse of fireworks as space station orbits over US - Yahoo News Canada
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were treated to a July 4 fireworks display as the outpost orbited abov...
The Milky Way’s Arms May Stretch Farther Than We Thought - Gizmodo
New measurements could force astronomers to revise the mass of the galaxy....
NASA’s Voyager 1 left Earth in 1977; now its signal takes over 22 hours to reach us and it is still sendi - The Times of India
Science News: When NASA launched Voyager 1 in September 1977, it was expected to explore the outer planets before contin...
China's Spacecraft Snaps First-Ever Close-Up Image Of Earth's Rare 'Minimoon' - NDTV
Despite being called a "minimoon", Kamo'oalewa is not Earth's second moon. It is a rare type of aste...
For 21 years, Voyager 1’s primary roll thrusters were considered dead. Then in 2025, NASA tried to wake them up from 15 billion miles away — knowing that if they fired cold, they could explode, but if they stayed dead, the spacecraft might one day lose its aim - Space Daily
For most spacecraft, a failed thruster is an engineering problem. For Voyager 1, it is a problem stretched across inters...
Famous study in error: the Universe isn’t anisotropic - Big Think
Using the newest large-scale structure data, a team of researchers announced a huge cosmic anisotropy in Nature. Too bad...
A planet nearly 700 light-years away has mineral clouds that form every morning and completely vanish by nightfall — a daily weather cycle made of rock, confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope in May 2026 - Space Daily
A planet nearly 700 light-years from Earth now has one of the strangest weather forecasts in astronomy: cloudy mornings,...
Fire detectors, military tech demos, 3D printers among SpaceX rideshare payloads launching on midnight Falcon 9 flight - Spaceflight Now
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We’re in the middle of a heatwave, so why is the ‘cold blob’ in the North Atlantic causing so much concern? - The Independent
A large expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean has been bucking the global warming trend and is alarming scientists, who wa...
AI system translates protein sequences into text, helping reveal functions of unknown proteins - Phys.org
In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Technion and Tel Aviv Universi...
A Jupiter-sized planet outlived its dying star, and NASA’s Webb has now read its atmosphere — the first ever detected on a world orbiting a white dwarf - Space Daily
The gas giant WD 1856 b should have been swallowed when its star ballooned into a red giant. Webb found methane, haze, a...
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds - Live Science
Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same...
Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks on the Fourth of July. See their ISS view of Los Angeles (video) - Space
"A celebration so bright it reached all the way to space!"...
Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen announces space agency retirement weeks after historic moon mission - CNN
The Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, who captivated the world during the historic moon mission, said Monday he�...