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Venice’s growing flamingo population finds refuge in recovering wetlands
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Perhaps nothing better illustrates the flamingo’s status as a newcomer to the Venetian Lagoon than the fact that the local dialect has no word for them.But the pale pink birds — called “fenicotteri” in Italian — are now flocking to Venice in...
NASA taps 2 companies to develop buggies for its moon base program
A look at lunar rovers for NASA's planned Moon Base 02:39Hawthorne, California — It was 1971 when America's love affair with the car went lunar. The Apollo Lunar Rover turned American moon-walkers into moon-drivers, allowing astronauts to explore more than 50 miles of...
Meteor triggers loud boom and shaking felt across Massachusetts
A meteor traveling at thens of thousands of miles an hour triggered a loud boom and ground shaking that were felt across Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon.NASA confirmed a fireball, meaning a bright meteor, passed over the state at 2:06 p.m. at an estimated speed of...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 212 — Kabooms, Starship, and a Moon Base
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: TWiT[embedded content]On Episode 212 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Space.com's Mike Wall to discuss the loss of Blue Origin's...
Why is the idea of a Blue Moon so enchanting? Over 100 years of pop culture fascination
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A filtered image of a full moon. | Credit: mauinow1i/Stock/Getty Images PlusOn May 31, the lunar month culminates in a Blue Moon — in this case, the second full moon...
How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] dinosaurs died, how come there are birds? Caiden S., age 9, Wylie, TexasEveryone knows what a bird is – and pretty...
Watch the smallest full moon of 2026 tonight in this rare ‘Blue Moon’ livestream
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Created in Canva Pro.[embedded content]The second full moon of May, the 'Blue Moon', rises tonight, marking the smallest full moon of 2026.You can watch the...
A violent volcanic eruption may have revealed a new weapon to tackle a potent planet-heating gas
When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas nearly 40 miles above the Earth’s surface. It was one of the most violent volcanic eruptions of modern times. It may also have also revealed a new weapon in...
A trip to the United Arab Emirates’ darkest spot reveals a rare view of the Milky Way
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Death Valley sees its most spectacular superbloom in a decade
Death Valley has come alive.A superbloom of wildflowers has painted the normally barren landscape of Death Valley National Park — one of the most extreme places on the planet and the hottest and driest spot in North America — in pretty pink, purple and yellow...
The audacious plan to refill the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake has been shriveling up for decades. At its record low about four years ago, the exposed lake bed became a source of toxic dust, with scientists warning of imminent ecological collapse. A Utah official called the lake an “environmental nuclear...
What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] is below Earth, since space is present in every direction? – Purvi, age 17, IndiaIf you’ve seen illustrations or...
Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs
After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, ESCAPADE’s twin probes will map...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 200 — Our 200th Episode Listener Special!
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: TWiT[embedded content]On Episode 200 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik celebrate their 200th episode with their annual listener special!We took...
Digital reconstruction reveals the face of ‘Little Foot,’ a nearly 4 million-year-old human ancestor
Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67 million years ago, thanks to digital reconstruction technology.Renowned paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke identified four tiny bones in the University of the...
Will Proba-3 phone home? European solar-eclipse satellite goes dark
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: European Space AgencyEurope has lost contact with one of its two Proba-3 spacecraft, after an anomaly caused the vehicle to lose orientation.The European...
The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime: Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Scientists have discovered over 100 more gravitational wave events. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)Our catalog of spacetime ripples "heard" by gravitational...
Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: ‘The timing was extremely lucky’
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An artist's rendering of a solar storm stripping charged particles from the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. | Credit: NASA/GSFCTwo European Space Agency Mars-orbiting...
Heat waves that spark damaging droughts are happening more frequently, study finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Heat waves that lead to sudden and damaging drought are spreading across the globe at an accelerating rate, highlighting how climate change-fueled extremes can build dangerously off each other, a new study found.Researchers from South Korea and...
Spacecraft’s impact changed asteroid’s orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday.It’s the first time...
Japan’s 1st HTV-X cargo craft leaves the International Space Station (photo)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Japan’s HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft departs the International Space Station after its release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm on March 6, 2026. | Credit: NASA+Japan's new...
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