UK's iconic Jodrell Bank telescope faces axe in science cuts - BBC
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus - ScienceAlert
Whatever astronomers glimpsed during a brief observation of Venus in 2010 was not supposed to be there.
It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel - WIRED
Black holes eject powerful energy jets that blow away the surrounding gas to great distances. So how can they continue to grow?
An abandoned SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon. The real problem comes next - The Conversation
As the Moon starts getting crowded, questions of safety and responsibility are becoming hard to ignore.
A spider in the Himalayas wears the same red smiling face as Hawaii's famous happy-face spider — and its DNA marks it as a new species, not the Hawaiian one long thought to wear that grin alone - Space Daily
Researchers in Uttarakhand described a new spider, Theridion himalayana, carrying the red-and-black smile that made Hawaii's happy-face spider famous. A gene barcode sets it about 8.5 percent apart from the Hawaiian species, enough to call it its own lineage.…
See A Full ‘Buck Moon’ And ‘Shooting Stars:’ The Night Sky This Week - Forbes
North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This week sees a full Buck Moon rise.
China’s new alloy can withstand extreme heat; could be used in reactors, hypersonic missiles - Interesting Engineering
The innovation creates material that remains structurally stable under extreme heat while continuing to bear heavy mechanical loads.
For decades a single whale has called at a frequency no other whale answers, and no one can say whether it is truly alone or simply speaking a language the rest of the ocean cannot hear - Space Daily
Scientists have tracked a whale's solitary call for decades, but loneliness may be the wrong story—and the ocean's depths may hide truths we're simply not equipped to hear.
A Soviet probe built in 1972 to land on Venus returned to Earth on 10 May 2025, and the same titanium shell meant to survive the hottest planet may have carried it intact through re-entry - Space Daily
A spacecraft built to withstand Venus's hellish surface may have survived its accidental journey home, raising the tantalizing possibility that humanity's oldest lost probe just returned itself to Earth.