2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1027+ words) Plans by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and other companies to put large data center networks in space are facing a new environmental challenge, with U.S. advocacy groups asking federal regulators on Thursday, July 23, 2026, to pause new licenses until their potential…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (758+ words) Think of Earth's oceans, rivers and lakes as a global bloodstream, carrying the oxygen that keeps aquatic ecosystems alive and the carbon cycles that help regulate the planet's climate. Now scientists are warning that oxygen levels in that bloodstream are…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (585+ words) Human activity is driving biodiversity loss at a pace comparable to past mass extinction events, but scientists say there is still time to change course. Rather than trying to save every threatened species individually, conservation experts argue that protecting large,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (492+ words) The event unfolded along the Southeast Indian Ridge, where the Australian and Antarctic tectonic plates slowly move apart. While scientists have long known that mid-ocean ridges continuously generate new oceanic crust, directly observing these processes has remained exceptionally difficult because…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (350+ words) Scientists have recorded, for the first time, a complete episode of seafloor spreading as it occurred, capturing the process that builds most of Earth's crust. The observations, published in the journal Nature, were made at the Southeast Indian Ridge, a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (667+ words) The idea of moving artificial intelligence data centers into space has resurfaced as governments and technology companies race to expand AI infrastructure and satellite connectivity, reviving debate over whether future computing could eventually move beyond Earth. The renewed discussion follows…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (687+ words) As NASA, China, and other space agencies prepare to bring back samples from the Moon, Mars, and beyond, scientists are proposing an unusual safeguard: don't bring potentially alien material to Earth until it has first been quarantined and examined on…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (552+ words) Several asteroids ranging from the size of large buildings to objects wider than five football fields are expected to make relatively close flybys of Earth during the second half of 2026. While such encounters often attract attention, NASA says none of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1108+ words) On June 30, 1908, something exploded above a remote stretch of the Tunguska River in Siberia with the force of roughly 10 to 15 megatons of TNT, flattening an estimated 2,000 square kilometers of forest, destroying approximately 80 million trees, and knocking people off their feet…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (432+ words) Scientists have discovered more than 7,000 species of microbes in the deepest known part of Earth's oceans, revealing that this extreme environment is far more alive and diverse than previously believed. The discovery was made in the Challenger Deep, a section…...