SCIENCE

[ad_1] Astronomers have long believed that the ice giants Uranus and Neptune are rich in frozen water. However, a new study suggests they may also have tons of methane ice. The findings could help solve a puzzle about how these icy worlds formed. Much about Uranus and Neptune remains unknown. These ice giant worlds have […]

[ad_1] Metro By Patrick Reilly Published April 10, 2024, 11:20 p.m. ET See more A massive fireball lit up the sky across New Jersey early Wednesday morning in what has already been a bizarre week of natural phenomena in the Garden State and surrounding area, including an earthquake and the solar eclipse. An apparent meteor

[ad_1] Concern that the Great Barrier Reef may be suffering the most severe mass coral bleaching event on record has escalated after a conservation group released footage showing damage up to 18 metres below the surface. Dr Selina Ward, a marine biologist and former academic director of the University of Queensland’s Heron Island Research Station,

[ad_1] Lifestyle By Emilee Speck, FOX Weather Published April 10, 2024, 6:34 p.m. ET Astronauts on the International Space Station had an eerie view during the total solar eclipse on Monday as the Moon’s shadow raced across the planet’s surface. Waiting for totality on Earth took more than an hour after the partial eclipse began,

[ad_1] By now, you’ve probably seen more than a few stunning pictures of Monday’s solar eclipse, a special treat even if you weren’t lucky enough to see it yourself from the path of totality. For some people, though, it wasn’t enough just to look up. The overachievers among eclipse viewers flew through the air, skied

[ad_1] Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a new particle that came to be named after him (as well as God) and sparked a half-century, worldwide, billion-dollar search for it culminating in champagne in 2012 and a Nobel Prize a year later, died on Monday at home in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 94. The

[ad_1] NASA engineers have discovered the cause of a communications breakdown between Earth and the interstellar explorer Voyager 1. It would appear that a small portion of corrupted memory exists in one of the spacecraft’s computers.  The glitch caused Voyager 1 to send unreadable data back to Earth, and is found in the NASA spacecraft’s

[ad_1] By Georgina Rannard BBC science reporter 9 April 2024 Image source, University of Edinburgh Peter Higgs, a giant of British science who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson particle, has died aged 94. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work showing how the boson

[ad_1] Satellites saw the moon’s shadow from space on Monday (April 8). The 2024 total solar eclipse was visible in parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico on that day, thrilling millions of spectators across North America  — and from space, satellites could see the shadow of the moon falling across those regions in

[ad_1] Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired off its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday, launching a classified spy satellite in the last hurrah of a storied family of rockets dating back to the dawn of the space age. The Heavy’s three hydrogen-fueled RS-68A first stage engines ignited with