How does a moon 1.4 billion kilometres from the Sun end up with rivers, rain and lakes, but not a single drop of water in any of them? - Space Daily
Titan has rain, rivers, and seas—but they're made of liquid methane, forcing us to rethink what a habitable world might actually look like.
By Space Daily
In 1991, a single subatomic particle struck Earth carrying the kinetic energy of a fast-bowled cricket ball — tens of millions of times more than any human accelerator can give one proton — and physicists still cannot explain what launched it - Space Daily
A cosmic particle hit Earth with the force of a professional cricket throw—but no known physics can explain where it came from or how it got here.
By Space Daily
Scientists Discover The Fourth Transmissible Cancer Known To Science - Forbes
Scientists found the fourth type of transmissible cancer, and the first in a fish: a melanoma whose tumor cells spread between catfish in a Vermont lake.
By John Drake
The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Webb is finding galaxies that look like they've been quietly forming stars for billions of years inside a cosmos that was, at the time of observation, only a few hundred million years old - Space Daily
Webb's stunning early galaxies are forcing astronomers to rethink cosmic history—but not quite in the way the headlines suggest.
By Space Daily
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires - WIRED
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.
By Brian Kahn
Can We Really Create Infinite Photons? Physicists Reveal What Might Happen if We Try to Cut Light in Half - ScienceAlert
Photons act in freaky ways that remind us that nothing is as it seems at the smallest scales and most fundamental levels of existence.
By Ivan Farkas
Why you should never kill spiders in your home, according to an entomologist - The Independent
Killing a spider doesn’t just cost the arachnid its life, it may take an important predator out of your home
By Matt Bertone
Scientists turn modern biobanks into a new window on human evolution - Phys.org
For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including fossils, genetic variation across populations and ancient DNA. Building on these approaches, researchers are increasingly using large pop…
By Phys.Org
Quantum dots reveal hidden light waves on metal surfaces - Phys.org
Photographs can reveal things that are otherwise impossible for the naked eye to see, be they distant galaxies or microscopic cells. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a practical and versatile imaging technique that makes another usu…
By Phys.Org
Astronomers may have detected an exomoon - Boing Boing
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our own solar system, which might be the first exomoon to be detected…
By Rob Beschizza
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer - Ars Technica
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
By John Timmer
As Mars’s atmosphere thinned and its surface became cold, dry and irradiated billions of years ago, any surviving microbial life may have found its last refuge underground. Yet the environments most capable of sheltering life could lie metres—or kilometres—b - Space Daily
We may be looking for Martian life in all the wrong places—and at depths we cannot yet reach.
By Space Daily
Hubble and Webb uncover Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole after 23 years of observations - The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform
Instead of searching for X-rays or radio signals from material falling onto a black hole, astronomers measured the tiny motion of a star across the sky for more than two decades…
By Reet Kaur
Quantum Zeno effect could freeze computations as qubit systems scale up - Phys.org
The promise of quantum computing is to solve complex problems faster and more energy-efficiently than today's supercomputers—from optimizing logistics to simulating molecules. This goal is coming within reach as the number of qubits—the computational units of…
By Phys.Org
See stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition - CNN
The Royal Observatory Greenwich has narrowed the search for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The winners will be announced on September 17.
By Sneha Dhandapani
Why Europa's hidden ocean may be more difficult to reach than scientists thought - Phys.org
Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, has long fascinated scientists because of what may lie beneath its frozen shell: a global ocean of liquid water. That hidden ocean has made Europa one of the most compelling places in the solar system to study the condition…
By Phys.Org
What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io? NASA's Juno probe just took a peek - Space
The subsurface findings could transform how scientists study volcanoes across the solar system — including those on Earth.
By Samantha Mathewson
'Much more violent than predicted': A chunk of the universe's missing matter was powerfully hurled out of galaxies - Live Science
The total amount of ordinary matter in our universe adds up to roughly one-tenth of what's expected. Now, scientists think they may have found some of it between galaxies.
By Alex Keshavarzi
This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about - Ars Technica
These are things that tend to be really hard."
By Stephen Clark