China Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans - Jalopnik
The Chinese mission to Mars is on pace to launch in 2028, and it may beat the U.S. back to Earth with soil samples, even...
An Iowa man built his six-inch parakeet a miniature submarine so the bird could join him underwater in the Bahamas — the homemade capsule used a paintball air tank, safety valves and an oxygen monitor and carried Bebe about three feet beneath the surfa - spacedaily.com
One man's obsession with sharing his passions led him to engineer something no ornithologist could have predicted: a wor...
Rubin observatory peers deep into the famous COSMOS field - Phys.org
The COSMOS field, or Cosmic Evolution Survey Deep Field, is one of the most famous patches of the universe observed by a...
Scientists Bred “Super-Athlete” Mice for 30 Years – What Happened Was Unexpected - SciTechDaily
A study involving 100 pairs of mice produced unexpected results that surprised researchers....
The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed To Do… Nothing - Hackaday
Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronic...
NASA, IBM launch new AI model for studying the moon - Space
"Collecting data is only part of the job."...
Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the sun? - Live Science
Despite being farther from the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, and the reason has little to do wit...
Date the world will be destroyed and universe ends calculated by scientists - AOL.com
A study from Cornell University suggests the universe will collapse in a "Big Crunch"...
Rocket Lab protests NASA award of Mars telecom orbiter contract - SpaceNews
Rocket Lab announced Sept. 11 it is filing a protest of NASA’s decision to award a $700 million contract for a Mars co...
The Atlantic Ocean Has a Hidden 'Heat Valve' That Controls Earth's Temperature – And It Could Be Closing - ScienceAlert
Our relatively stable global climate is governed by an incredibly complex set of factors, all interacting with each othe...
A steel tension tie holding up a 1973 bridge that carries Interstate 40 over the Mississippi was found split most of the way through, and traffic in both directions was stopped within hours on May 11, 2021. Ultrasonic testing of the other welds turned up 12 more w - spacedaily.com
A routine bridge inspection revealed a crack hiding in plain sight—and when engineers looked closer, they found a doze...
Firefighters say this antioxidant helped them - their union warns it could be risky - BBC
Glutathione, an antioxidant, has been offered as a treatment at some of the largest US wildfires in recent years....
The torch of the Statue of Liberty has been closed to the public since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot nearby and shrapnel tore into the statue's arm — in the 110 years since, no visitor has been allowed back up the ladder - Space Daily
A century-old act of sabotage still keeps visitors from reaching the Statue of Liberty's highest point, a restriction so...
First-ever adult Tyrannosaurus rex trackway discovered in North Dakota badlands - WYFF
Paleontologists have discovered the first known trackway made by a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex: four connected footprin...
Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract - Space
"NASA's award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria mandated by Congress."...
A star is exploding 45 million light-years away — here's how you can see it - Space
The newly discovered Type Ia supernova SN 2026aaiv in NGC 7331 offers amateur astronomers and astrophotographers a rare ...
Ancient Bird Feather in Dino Poop May Hold Big Clues - Newser
Fossil found in dinosaur feces offers insight into bird extinctions from the time period...
“One of the longest-running cold cases of palaeontology.” Scientists may finally know what created these strange markings - BBC Wildlife Magazine
This pattern has been puzzling scientists for centuries – now, new research uncovers part of the mystery....
Scientists discover a strange new form of ice that could help explain the interiors of Neptune and Uranus - Phys.org
Scientists have discovered that there is ice deep inside planets like Neptune and Uranus and want to find out what form ...
Giant volcanic blanket reveals hidden 'Pompeii' of Andean landscapes - Phys.org
A vast sheet of volcanic rock in the Andes has preserved clues to a buried landscape that existed 22 million years ago, ...
Experts just found an enormous volcano lurking under England - BBC Science Focus Magazine
454 million years ago, an eruption as powerful as several thousand hydrogen bombs tore through the English east coast...
Brain's ability to hear a musical beat remains distinctly human, study suggests - phys.org
The seemingly trivial ability to hear a regular pulse in music is a remarkable—and perhaps distinctively human—featu...
Hidden clues show Mercury shrank more than previously thought - USA Today
Mercury has been shrinking since it formed in our solar system's early days. New evidence, though, suggests it used to b...
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists - The Register
Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures...