Snow looks white in the way salt, sugar, or crushed ice looks white. Obvious at first glance. Almost boring. But if you stop and think about it for a second, it feels a little strange. Snow is frozen water. Ice is clear. Water is clear. So where does all that whiteness come from? It doesn’t…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth by the end 2026 (Image Credit – NASA) Voyager 1 keeps moving farther from Earth than any human-made object. Launched in 1977, it flew by Jupiter and Saturn, sending back images and information that changed our understanding of the outer planets. It left the asteroid belt early…
Source: State Museum of Prehistory Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze disc seems simple at first glance. A bronze circle. Gold inlays. Stars and moons. But experts say it could be the world’s oldest “astronomy app.” People back in the…
The US federal government suffered one of the most severe losses of scientific expertise in its modern history in 2025, with more than 10,000 STEM PhD scientists leaving federal agencies in a single year. An analysis published by Science, based on workforce data from the US Office of Personnel Management, found that 10,109 doctoral-level scientists…
A Spanish research team says it has developed a treatment that completely eliminated the most aggressive form of pancreatic cancer in laboratory mice, raising fresh hopes against one of the deadliest cancers. The study, led by Mariano Barbacid at Spain’s Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, found that a newly designed triple-drug therapy wiped out pancreatic…
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 85 seconds before midnight. The change was announced by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Last year, it was set at 89 seconds. The clock is updated annually. It is meant to reflect global conditions, not predict specific events. Scientists involved in the process look at security risks, environmental…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon delivers final orbital boost to the ISS before return (AI-generated) The International Space Station received another small lift late last week, continuing a routine but essential process that keeps the orbiting laboratory at the right height above Earth. On Friday, January 23, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft attached to the station fired…
NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft are seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, after being rolled out to the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. AP/PTI(AP01_19_2026_000008B) NASA teams in Florida are moving through a careful stretch of work as preparations continue for the Artemis…
Solar wind explained: How the sun’s particle stream impacts our solar system (Image source: NASA) Solar wind sounds poetic, but it’s a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel on Earth, solar wind isn’t moving air; it’s a constant stream of charged…
For centuries, Earth’s seasons were assumed to follow a shared, predictable rhythm. Spring arrived, summer peaked, autumn faded, and winter reset the cycle. But two decades of satellite observations now show that this assumption is breaking down. Using long-term global datasets, scientists have found that the timing of seasons is becoming increasingly uneven, fragmented, and…
