In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 6-78 mission launches from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2025. Credit: U.S. Space Force photo by Gwendolyn Kurzen, public ...
Concept illustration of a laser-driven lightsail. This is an artist's concept, not a spacecraft that has reached relativistic speed. Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives. Source and project information. A ...
The footage runs just under three minutes. A wolf swims out from a rocky shoreline on the central coast of British Columbia, grabs a floating buoy in her jaws, and turns back toward the beach. What ...
Picture two versions of Earth. One is the planet outside your window, running its rainforests and coral reefs and pollinators for free, no bill attached. The other is a three-acre copy sealed under ...
Somewhere on the planet right now, somebody is the last living person who can tell a particular joke and have it land. The punchline runs on a word that exists in exactly one language, and that ...
Representative image relating to an asteroid near Earth. This stock image is not a depiction of the Chicxulub impact. Photo by FURKAN GÜNEŞ on Pexels. About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly ...
Humanity’s first deliberate act of interplanetary vandalism was over before the pictures finished arriving. On 26 September 2022, a spacecraft roughly the size of a refrigerator flew into a 150-metre ...
Every morning, lorries stacked with other people’s rubbish grind across the Norwegian border into Sweden, and ships carrying baled British household waste tie up at Swedish docks. None of it is being ...
RNA is the molecule biologists generally treat as disposable. Unlike DNA, which is built to be a stable long-term archive, RNA is manufactured, used, and broken down by a cell within hours, sometimes ...
Somewhere in the middle years of parenting an adult child, many mothers and fathers stop trying to explain themselves. The explaining used to work when the child was twelve, or twenty, or freshly ...
Photo by Scott Lord via Pexels (representative image, not an actual photograph of 3I/ATLAS) On 1 July 2025, a robotic sky survey in Rio Hurtado, Chile, called ATLAS flagged a faint point of light ...
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