When molecules fall apart, their electric charge doesn’t stay put—it rearranges as bonds stretch and break. An international team of scientists has now tracked these ultrafast changes in the small molecule fluoromethane…
WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket successfully returned to flight March 11, launching a technology demonstration mission more than 10 months after the rocket’s previous launch failed.
Alpha lifted off at 8:50 p.m….
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance will begin selling space travel insurance in April.
This product is dedicated to “suborbital travel,” in which passengers depart from the ground, ascend to outer space at an altitude of around 100 kilometers, and then…
More than 1,000 tiny earthquakes have exposed a deeper, slanted reservoir beneath Germany’s Lake Laach volcano, not the vertical body scientists expected.
That new picture links the lake’s quiet surface to an active underground system that may…
For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing regularity.
A famous scientific exploration of the subject was published in 1894. It’s now 2026, and a newly published…
For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing regularity.
A famous scientific exploration of the subject was published in 1894. It’s now 2026, and a newly published…
Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was reviewing archived telescope observations from 2020 when he noticed something unusual. A seemingly ordinary star called Gaia20ehk was behaving in a way astronomers rarely see. Located about 11,000 light years from…
PARIS: Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.
Here are some key points about the planet’s ice as human-induced global warming accelerates:
Where is the…
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is celebrating today (March 11) after successfully launching its Alpha rocket for the first time in nearly a year.
A scientist from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England has identified seven previously unknown species of a distinctive frog-like insect.
The insects belong to the genus Batracomorphus, a group of leafhoppers. Dr. Alvin Helden…