Asteroid 2025 QV5 was discovered on August 24. It will make its closest approach to Earth on September 3, and the next such event won’t happen for another century. (Image: Juan Gartner via Getty Images) A space object the size…
To view this video, please enable JavaScript and update your browser to a version that supports HTML5 video. Next If your attempts to master the drums have ended in failure, prepare to be surprised. Now forest organisms are doing this.…
Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Divers raise statues from Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. Archaeologists and divers exploring the waters off Alexandria in northern Egypt have recovered a trove of artefacts from a sunken city believed to be…
Over the next two weeks, NASA is preparing to launch the TOMEX+ mission, using rockets to study vortex processes in the transition zone between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The launch of the three probes is scheduled no earlier than…
The vast dune area near the Kazakh village of Oyil in the steppe zone is remarkably similar to a giant mollusk. KEY DETAILS Location: Oyil Dunes, Kazakhstan [49.0485097, 54.776320616] Subject: A giant sand massif resembling a slug. Photo by: Unknown…
Intense aurora borealis will be visible in 18 U.S. states over the Labor Day holiday. (Image: Alexander Manzyuk/Anadolu via Getty Images) A “cannibalistic” solar storm is approaching the Earth’s magnetosphere, which will trigger bright atmospheric auroras that could be visible…
Donald McPherson was a United States Navy aviator in the Pacific Front in World War II, destroying five enemy Japanese aircraft. US Navy/National WWII MuseumDonald McPherson mastered the controls of a fighter jet during the war. After completing training at…
In 2018, archaeologists exploring cave systems in Vietnam discovered the well-preserved remains of an ancient human that may indicate the oldest violent death in history. Christopher M. Stimpson et al. Reconstruction of the skull of a man who died in…
The full moon rises over a wheat field in southern Alberta, Canada, on August 30, 2023. (Image courtesy of Getty Images, royalty-free) The last full moon of summer in the Northern Hemisphere occurs on Sunday, September 7, and is best…
(Image courtesy of Knowable Magazine, CC BY-ND) Back in 2008, neurovirologist Renee Douville discovered something strange in the brains of people who died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): viral proteins. But these people were not infected with any known virus.…