Biggest 'supermoon' of the year on July 13.

On Wednesday (July 13) at 5 a.m. EDT (09:00 GMT), the moon will arrive at its closest point to the Earth for 2022: a perigee distance of 221,994 miles (357,264 kilometers) away.  Nine hours and 38 minutes later, the moon will officially turn full. Though full moon theoretica…

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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down.

Ben Silbermann, a founder and chief executive of Pinterest, stepped down from the top job on Tuesday 28 June after more than a decade of running the digital pinboard service and taking it public. Pinterest did not give a reason for the change. Mr. Silbermann, 39, will become…

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Another supermoon rises this month with July's 'Buck Moon'.

July's full moon will once again be a supermoon, reaching its perigee or closest point to our planet on July 13. The moon will be relatively close to Earth in its slightly elliptical orbit, making it appear just slightly bigger and brighter than usual. The "Buck Moo…

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UK-built Forum satellite will measure greenhouse effect.

A spacecraft measuring Earth's warming 'greenhouse' effect in its greatest ever detail will be built in the UK. The Forum satellite will be assembled by aerospace giant Airbus at its factory in Stevenage. It will monitor far-infrared radiation coming up from our p…

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World’s Largest Bacterium Discovered in Caribbean Mangrove Swamps.

Scientists have identified a macroscopic species of bacterium in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, changing the size of how big bacteria were thought to be. The new species, Thiomargarita magnifica, meaning “sulfur pearl,” is a huge thin white filament visible to th…

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Intact woolly mammoth baby uncovered in northwestern Canada.

The preserved remains of a nearly whole 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth have been discovered in northwestern Canada. The baby mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. Government officials and representatives of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼi…

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China launched Three New Yagon-35 remote Sensing Satellites.

Three new remote sensing satellites were successfully launched by China from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the Sichuan Province in southwest China. The satellites were launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 10:22 a.m. (local time) as part of the Yaogan-35 fa…

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Iran tests Zuljanah satellite launcher for second time.

Iran has tested its Zuljanah satellite launcher for a second time for research purposes, according to state media. Iranian media on Sunday 26 June 2022 quoted a defence ministry spokesman as saying the satellite vehicle was launched with a suborbital target, and that data ga…

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South Korea launches first satellite with homegrown rocket.

South Korea conducted its first successful satellite launch using a domestically developed rocket on Tuesday 21 June 2022, officials said, boosting its growing aerospace ambitions and demonstrating it has key technologies needed to launch spy satellites and build larger mis…

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The 'lungs of humanity' which are under threat.

A giant slab of carbon-rich peat, discovered in central Africa, is under threat from uncontrolled development - posing a significant risk for future climate change, writes BBC Africa correspondent Andrew Harding. After 10 hours by car, another 10 by river in a dugout canoe, …

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Five planets align perfectly, visible until end of June.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have lined up in a rare alignment that won't occur again until 2040, according to AccuWeather. While it is common to view a couple of planets together at any given time, the alignment of five planets simultaneously is a rare pheno…

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Astronomers have detected a 'Missing Link' Shockwave in Merging Galaxies.

The colossal shock wave generated by the first stages of a collision between some of the most massive structures in the Universe has just been seen and imaged for the first time. The detection was found in the galaxy cluster Abell 98, which is a large structure made up of th…

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China says it may have detected signals from Alien Civilizations.

China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of alien civilizations, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery. The narrow-band electromagnetic signa…

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A NASA rover just found trash on Mars.

There's trash in the deepest ocean depths, at some 35,700 feet beneath the surface. There's also trash on Mars. While looking for hints of past microbial Martian life, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted landing debris caught in a jagged rock.  It's the…

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Anglo-Saxon burial ground unearthed at HS2 site in Buckinghamshire.

An Anglo-Saxon burial site containing the remains of more than 140 people interred with some of their most favoured objects, including jewellery, knives and even a personal grooming kit, has been discovered by archaeologists working on the HS2 route. The site, near Wendover,…

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RIP Internet Explorer.

Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, putting its aging web browser out to pasture after nearly 27 years. The moment comes more than a year after the company said that its Internet Explorer 11 Windows 10 desktop app would be retired in favor of Microso…

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China sends crewed mission to complete Tiangong space station.

China has sent three astronauts on a six-month-long mission to complete work on its permanent orbiting space station, the China Manned Space Agency said. The Shenzhou-14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which it will oversee the addition of two labo…

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New NASA spacecraft could survive a hellish descent on Venus.

NASA will launch a mission that will both fly by Venus and descend through its harsh atmosphere in 2029. Called DAVINCI, the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging mission will be the first to study Venus through both flybys and descent. Th…

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China releases ‘most detailed’ map of the moon’s surface.

The world’s first 1:2.5 million scales lunar geology map has been developed by Chinese experts. According to China Central Television, the map offers substantial fundamental data for lunar scientific study and is an essential new reference for constructing other celestial ge…

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India successfully tests nuclear-capable Agni 4 ballistic missile.

India on Monday successfully carried out a night launch of the nuclear-capable Agni-4 ballistic missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha, marking a significant boost to the country's military capabilities. In a brief statement, the defence ministry said the &quo…

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