One of Europe’s largest nuclear power plants has been forced to shut down due to unusual uninvited guests. The Gravelines nuclear power plant in northern France was completely shut down on Monday when a “huge and unpredictable” swarm of jellyfish…
An artist’s rendering of a black hole. (Photo courtesy of BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash) An astrophysicist has proposed a bold plan for how humanity could explore extreme physics in black holes by sending a spacecraft no bigger than a paper clip…
A “parade” of six planets, four of which will be visible without a telescope, will be visible this August. (Image credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images via Getty Images) Six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune —…
A Florida cougar explores Everglades National Park in 2006, 11 years after Texas cougars were relocated there to help restore the dwindling Florida cougar population, which suffers from genetic problems associated with inbreeding. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service,…
The incredible discovery was captured on video nearly 2.4 miles below the surface by a remotely operated vehicle as researchers explored the canyon and spotted it Share this article Share this article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email Copy link…
In 2016, 10 unusual dark cloud holes swirling in vortices were detected in the airspace over Heard Island. (Image credit: NASA/Landsat/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS) FAST FACTS Where is it? Heard Island, Indian Ocean [-53.116414344, 73.51793263] What’s in the photo? An unusual flow…
An artist’s impression of a space hurricane spewing plasma high above the North Pole. First recorded in 2014, the nearly eight-hour storm caused significant space meteorological effects despite abnormally low solar activity. (Image credit: Qing-He Zhang, Shandong University) A unique…
Over the past 22 years, rapidly drying hotspots have expanded, becoming “super drying” areas. (Photo: Andrew Merry/Getty Images) The continents have lost so much water since 2002 that they now have a greater impact on sea level rise than ice…
Meteorite fragments were recovered from a local resident’s living room in Georgia. (Photo: University of Georgia) Scientists say the space object that punched a hole in a Georgia man’s home this summer could be 20 million years older than our…
(Image credit: NOAA/Alamy) QUICK FACTS Name: Headless Chicken Monster (Enypniastes eximia) Habitat: The depths of the world’s oceans. What it eats: Marine snow (organic matter that floats from the surface to the seabed). If you were to encounter this unusual…