Science- Page 18

Technicians prepare the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spacecraft before its 2004 launch at Cape Canaveral

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

NASA confirmed Swift’s atmospheric re-entry over North Sumatra on November 4, ending a mission that observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts.

November 5, 2026

by Amanda Graham

Amelia Earhart's red Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

The Purdue-backed team that called its evidence "very strong" says the Taraia Object in Nikumaroro's lagoon was most likely a collection of large trees, not Amelia Earhart's Electra. Its steel-tube find and castaway theory survive, but no outside specialist is

October 19, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Image accompanying Euronews reporting on the end of leap seconds in 2027

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

Global timekeepers have voted to end leap-second adjustments from May 20, 2027. The new rule allows

Portrait of Stephen Cash, a smiling man in a dark suit and red-and-blue striped tie against a gray background

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA named retired Marshall engineer Steve Cash director of its Huntsville center, effective Monday, ending 13

NASA artist concept of Phase 3 of the Moon Base showing habitats, rovers and astronauts on the lunar south pole

NASA awards nearly $1 billion in contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build the foundations of a Moon Base

NASA awarded nearly $1 billion in fixed-price contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace on Tuesday to deliver the first rovers, landers and scout drones for a permanent lunar

May 27, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Illustration of Asgard archaea microbe as the common ancestor of all eukaryotes including plants, animals and fungi

Why Scientists Now Believe Every Plant, Animal and Fungus Descends From the Asgard Archaea

For decades, the question of where complex life began on Earth was framed in cautious terms. Biologists could see, in cells with a nucleus, an elegant piece of machinery built for division

May 25, 2026

News·Science

Young Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s, before his rise as a theoretical physicist

Stephen Hawking’s Father Feared He Was Wasting His Life, Secret Diaries Reveal

CAMBRIDGE, England. The young man who would one day rewrite humanity’s understanding of black holes was, in the eyes of his own father, drifting. He wandered the family home without ambition. He

May 25, 2026

News·Science

An anatomical illustration of the human brain showing the hypothalamus and surrounding regions

Hidden Brain Protein Drives Aging, and a Simple Amino Acid May Reverse Its Effects in Old Mice

Chinese researchers at Xiamen University say declining levels of a brain protein called Menin in the hypothalamus drive aging, and that the amino acid D-serine reversed cognitive decline in old mice.

May 25, 2026

Health·News·Science

NASA Landsat 9 satellite image of meltwater ponds forming on the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2025, evidence of accelerating ice melt

Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating, and Scientists Now Fully Explain Why

A new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences fully accounts for accelerating sea level rise, finding ocean warming and ice melt have nearly doubled the rate of rise since the 1960s.

May 24, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Cross-section of a 2.7 billion-year-old Tumbiana stromatolite from Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, showing finely layered microbial structure

Asteroid Crater in South Korea Yields Stromatolites That Hint at How Life Began on Earth

Korean geologists have found 20,000-year-old stromatolites buried beneath a meteorite crater, evidence that asteroid strikes may have built hydrothermal nurseries where early life on Earth could take hold.

May 24, 2026

News·Reports·Science

Artist concept of Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy with swirling accretion disk and bright flares observed by JWST

Inside the Birth, Life and Death of Black Holes: New Gravitational Wave Data Rewrites the Lifecycle of the Universe’s Most Extreme Objects

From stellar corpses to second-generation monsters and a possible quantum death by evaporation, 300 gravitational wave detections and a landmark 2026 Nature Astronomy study are forcing astrophysicists to redraw the timeline of

May 24, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Webb Telescope near-infrared image showing Messier 51 spiral arm with young star clusters lighting bubbles inside dense gas

Webb Telescope Finds Most Massive Star Clusters Break Free of Birth Clouds in Just 5 Million Years

An international team using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble has measured nearly 9,000 young star clusters across four nearby galaxies, finding that the largest break free of their gas cocoons

May 24, 2026

News·Science

NASA LAGEOS-1 satellite carrying Carl Sagan designed plaque in Earth orbit

NASA’s LAGEOS-1 Satellite Carries a Carl Sagan Message Earth Will Not Read for 8.4 Million Years

On May 4, 1976, a polished brass and aluminum sphere lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, slipped past the boundary where the sky turns black, and settled into an

May 24, 2026

Astronomy·Science

NASA astronaut Bob Hines exercising on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device ARED inside the International Space Station, the kind of bulky current-generation gym equipment HIFIm aims to replace

British space gym invention HIFIm could slash astronaut workout time as global race for lunar fitness kit heats up

A British-built exercise rig called HIFIm, tested by Olympic rower Matthew Wells on a parabolic flight, promises to cut astronaut workout time from two hours to thirty minutes a day and is

May 24, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Previous 1 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 25 Next

Science- Page 18

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA awards nearly $1 billion in contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build the foundations of a Moon Base

Why Scientists Now Believe Every Plant, Animal and Fungus Descends From the Asgard Archaea

Stephen Hawking’s Father Feared He Was Wasting His Life, Secret Diaries Reveal

Hidden Brain Protein Drives Aging, and a Simple Amino Acid May Reverse Its Effects in Old Mice

Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating, and Scientists Now Fully Explain Why

Asteroid Crater in South Korea Yields Stromatolites That Hint at How Life Began on Earth

Inside the Birth, Life and Death of Black Holes: New Gravitational Wave Data Rewrites the Lifecycle of the Universe’s Most Extreme Objects

Webb Telescope Finds Most Massive Star Clusters Break Free of Birth Clouds in Just 5 Million Years

NASA’s LAGEOS-1 Satellite Carries a Carl Sagan Message Earth Will Not Read for 8.4 Million Years

British space gym invention HIFIm could slash astronaut workout time as global race for lunar fitness kit heats up

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

Latest Posts

Eurozone Inflation Rises to 4% in October as Energy Costs Surge

Hijikata Stuns Djokovic in Paris and Ends His ATP Finals Hopes

Honor’s ARRI Camera Push Gives Phone Filmmakers More Than a Filter

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

Science- Page 18

Follow

Latest Posts