Machines at the Bottom of the Ocean Witnessed the Recent Solar Storm
Compasses at the bottom of the ocean wobbled as a massive solar storm hit Earth last week, giving the instruments two miles under the sea a jolt of magnetic shock…
Who’s Up for Some Killer Bee Beer?
If you’re looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you’re in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized…
Orbital Paparazzi Captures a Sneaky Picture of the ISS
A view of the ISS in orbit as seen by a satellite.Image: HEO Robotics The International Space Station (ISS) was caught looking a little undignified in a new photo captured…
Possible SpaceX Debris Crashes Onto Canadian Farm
It’s raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive…
Europa’s Icy Crust Is ‘Free-Floating’ Across the Moon’s Hidden Ocean, New Juno Images Suggest
On September 29, 2022, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Europa, coming to within 220 miles (355 kilometers) of the Jovian moon’s frozen surface. The closeup view of…
Egypt’s Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branch of the Nile River
Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth…
How ‘Kitty Cats’ Are Wrecking the Home Insurance Industry
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Is Apple’s New Slim iPad Pro Truly Crushing it? Off English The rising cost of homeowner’s…
Bird Flu Has Made It to the Big Apple
Avian influenza has come for New York City’s birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC’s wild bird population.…
Twin Probes Suffer Thruster Glitch on the Way to Mercury
For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been traveling through the solar system to reach the innermost planet Mercury and observe its extreme conditions. During its complex…
Conspiracy Nuts Are Spreading a Bizarre Theory About Those Epic Auroras
Conspiracy theorists on social media have been busy at work peddling their latest conclusion: The magnificent auroras seen over swaths of four different continents over the weekend were caused by…