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On Earth, dimethyl sulfide is produced overwhelmingly by life in the oceans and escapes into the atmosphere. JWST has now picked up a tantalising possible signature of the same molecule around K2-18 b, 120 light-years away — but the detection remains disputed, and scientists are still trying to determine whether non-biological chemistry could produce it.
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (884+ words) Webb's possible DMS signature on K2-18 b survives as a disputed candidate, while 2026 chemistry and retrieval studies show why neither the molecule nor its origin is settled. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit Dimethyl sulfide,…...
One night in 1986, a peaceful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide that swept through nearby villages — killing people and animals in their sleep and revealing one of the rarest natural disasters on Earth.
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (350+ words) Scientists still don't fully understand why some lakes can spontaneously suffocate entire communities with invisible gas, or how to prevent the next catastrophe. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit Imagine going to sleep in a quiet farming village, windows open to…...
How does a planet spin so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its entire year, while the clouds above it race all the way around in just four days?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1371+ words) The planet's surface crawls so sluggishly that its day outlasts its year—yet its upper atmosphere whips around four times faster than the surface rotates, a contradiction that has puzzled planetary scientists for decades. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published…...
If you compressed the entire history of Earth into a single calendar year, humans appear at 11:36 pm on the 31st of December, agriculture at 11:59, and everything written down in history occupies the final 15 seconds before midnight
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1062+ words) The most useful thing about compressing Earth's history into a calendar year is not that the timestamps are perfect. Published July 12, 2026 The most useful thing about compressing Earth’s history into a calendar year is not that the timestamps are perfect....
The largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia was hiding in plain sight near a pond in northeastern Thailand — mistaken for ordinary rocks until researchers confirmed it as a 27-tonne, 27-metre sauropod
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (562+ words) Space Daily The bone was taller than the man standing beside it. That was the first real clue that the weathered shapes at the edge of a communal pond in Chaiyaphum province, in northeastern Thailand, were not stones. A local…...
Earth's magnetic field has flipped hundreds of times, the last reversal was around 780,000 years ago, and the field has been weakening for the past two centuries
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (600+ words) Earth's magnetic field is not fixed. Over the planet's history it has reversed polarity hundreds of times, swapping magnetic north and south. Published July 10, 2026 Earth’s magnetic field is not fixed. Over the planet’s history it has reversed polarity hundreds of…...
Scientists have detected a giant fan-shaped structure buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, suggesting the frozen continent may be hiding the geological scars of the breakup that helped separate Antarctica from Australia
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (992+ words) Published July 3, 2026 East Antarctica can look, from above, like the quiet half of the frozen continent: old, thick, cold and buried under kilometres of ice. But beneath that ice, new mapping suggests the bedrock may carry the shape of a…...
Earth’s inner core may have quietly reversed course: after decades of spinning slightly faster than the surface, seismic waves from repeating earthquakes show it slowed around 2010 and began drifting backward relative to the rest of the planet.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (409+ words) More than 5,000 kilometres beneath your feet, Earth's solid inner core has spent the past few decades turning slightly faster than the planet wrapped around it. Published June 30, 2026 More than 5,000 kilometres beneath your feet, Earth’s solid inner core has spent the…...
Voyager 1's signal now takes more than 23 hours to reach Earth, and by the time NASA receives the next status check the spacecraft will already be 1.5 million kilometres further into interstellar space
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (489+ words) By Space Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process Published May 18, 2026 By the time NASA receives Voyager 1’s next status check, the spacecraft has already moved more than 1.4 million kilometres further into interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is now far enough from…...
SES just quietly killed two satellites Intelsat already paid to build, and the cancellation says more about the death of geostationary economics than any earnings call ever could
3+ mon, 3+ hour ago (804+ words) The two largest European satellite operators are abandoning planned geostationary satellites and pushing the capital toward low Earth orbit, a clear signal that the GEO build-out era is winding down even at its most committed players. By Space Daily Editorial…...