Science

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, has recently captured striking new observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS. In November 2025, the spacecraft employed five of its scientific instruments to study the comet, collecting crucial information about its activity, structure, and composition. These measurements are helping scientists understand the behaviour, trajectory, and unique characteristics of this interstellar…

Billions of years ago, Mars was not the arid, desolate planet we know today. Evidence suggests that rainfall once flowed across its surface, carving valleys, filling craters, and forming river networks that may have emptied into a vast ocean. Understanding these ancient waterways is crucial for scientists searching for signs of past life, as water…

Observing the universe has always depended on dark skies, long exposures, and instruments designed to capture signals that are often barely distinguishable from background noise. This delicate balance is beginning to shift as satellite megaconstellations expand across low Earth orbit, increasing both in number and operational complexity. These networks support global communication services, navigation systems,…

When The Matrix came out in the last year of the last century, it broke our minds. The perfect mix of occidental and oriental philosophy wrapped in Goth motifs with unimaginable kickass action made audiences everywhere question their reality. It became so ingrained in popular culture that when landlines started disappearing, people wondered if we…

More than 60,000 African penguins vanished from two of South Africa’s most important breeding islands in less than a decade, and scientists say they now understand why. A study published in the journal Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology has revealed that the collapse of sardine stocks triggered an unprecedented wave of starvation, wiping out more…

Source: Earth via X (formerly Twitter) The night of 5 December 2025 offered sky watchers a final lunar spectacle as the full Moon rose into view under a widely recognised seasonal name and a striking orbital alignment. Known traditionally as the Cold Moon, this full Moon coincided with the last supermoon of the year and…

Comet 3I/ATLAS reveals glowing coma, plasma and dust tails from ESA’s Juice mission/ Image: European Space Agency Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has made a kind of second career out of being the person in the room who refuses to leave “aliens” off the table. With 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar object ever spotted passing…

Doctors warn microsleep is the sleep they fear most, a 1–30 second blackout where your brain stops processing anything, often with your eyes still open. People often imagine danger creeping in when they stay awake too long, the nodding head, the heavy eyes, the drift into sleep they try to fight off. What they don’t…

Observations of the sky recorded thousands of years ago continue to play a remarkable role in modern science, demonstrating that careful human observation has long-lasting value. One particularly significant record comes from ancient China, which documented a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These records include descriptions of the timing and duration…

Scientists’ understanding of Late Cretaceous ecosystems is changing as a result of an amazing finding made in the untamed centre of Bolivia. The biggest known concentration of dinosaur footprints ever discovered is found in a site called Carreras Pampa in Torotoro National Park. There are an astounding 16,600 tracks there, all of which were left…