Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 After Curiosity’s 14 years on the surface, Mars continues to surprise. Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past — broad, shallow pits (like the one…
Pair of boys charged after ‘vulnerable young woman and two teenage girls raped’ across two counties
By GETHIN HICKS, REPORTER Published: 16:08 BST, 3 September 2026 | Updated: 16:26 BST, 3 September 2026 Two teenage boys have been charged after a vulnerable young woman and two teenage girls were allegedly raped in two separate counties. The alleged assaults happened at addresses in North Somerset, western Somerset…
Igniting Roman’s Journey – NASA
Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in…
Ancient “living fossils” may reveal how complex life began
At first glance, stromatolites and their close relatives, microbial mats, can look like little more than dark, ancient rocks. In reality, they are densely packed, layered communities built by microbes. Billions of years ago, before animals and plants existed, stromatolites helped release some of the earliest oxygen into Earth’s atmosphere.…
Woman, 62, dies after Audi that had been chased by police for six minutes crashed into her car
By ARTHUR PARASHAR, SENIOR REPORTER Published: 14:09 BST, 3 September 2026 | Updated: 14:48 BST, 3 September 2026 A mother who was left fighting for her life after a teenager crashed into her during a six-minute police chase has tragically died. Karen Joseph, 62, was rushed to hospital with critical…
Missed the August lunar eclipse? Here’s when the next one happens
August’s “almost Blood Moon” partial lunar eclipse has come and gone, delighting stargazers with a gorgeous natural light show as light filtered by our planet’s atmosphere turned it a deep crimson around the point of maximum eclipse. But when is the next lunar eclipse? Earth won’t darken the moon again…
Chris Langham dead at 77: Disgraced BBC comedian and The Thick of It star who was jailed for haul of child abuse images passes away from pancreatic cancer
The Thick of It star and convicted paedophile Chris Langham has died aged 77 after a secret battle with pancreatic cancer, it was revealed today. Langham, whose successful career on stage and screen ended when he was jailed for child sex offences in 2006, passed away almost three months ago.…
Watch India launch its 1st geosynchronous Earth-imaging satellite today
GSLV-F17/EOS-05 MISSION – YouTube Watch On India plans to notch a spaceflight milestone today (Sept. 3), and you can watch the action live. A GSLV Mark II rocket is scheduled to launch an Earth-imaging satellite toward geosynchronous orbit — something India has never done successfully — from Satish Dhawan Space…
Our favorite climate books » Yale Climate Connections
Want to learn more about climate change and how you can be part of the solution? Look no further than these books recommended by Yale Climate Connections journalists. These are the fiction and nonfiction titles that got us interested in climate change and showed us new ways of thinking about…
An endangered pygmy raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her family how, too
It started when the pygmy raccoon dove into the wrong trash bin—not the bin known by her family for its tasty food scraps but the one with paper and plastic waste. Last January Nessie O’Neil, a graduate student in biology at Miami University in Ohio, watched as a young pygmy…