Do you like your space movies marinated in misery? Then you’re in the right place, because we’ve rounded up the ten bleakest space movies of all time. It’s satisfying when the evil empire gets its comeuppance, but there’s a grim appeal to sci-fi that wallows in the worst. Why? In part, it’s the acknowledgement that
Imagine being a cougar in Yellowstone National Park in the northern USA. Until the mid-1990s, you were the area’s top predator and could take down the abundant elk – herbivores very closely related to European red deer – almost at will. Then something changed. Wolves were reintroduced and have slowly increased in number. Over time,
A handwritten letter to her pen pal Megan Lewis from April 1995 – Courtesy of Suzanne Pugh It wasn’t quite a reunion; since the women knew each other well. Their relationship, so far as they understood it, was that important one between an OB/GYN and their patient carrying a child. Little did Megan Lewis and
NEW YORK — Most kids know how to play pretend by age 2. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that’s led to new kinds of art, music and more. Now, for the
A large rocky asteroid will make a close approach to Earth in 2032, with the tantalizing prospect of smashing directly into the Moon. If it does, the lunar impact is likely to produce a bright flash visible from Earth, generate meteor showers in Earth’s atmosphere, and create a long-lasting infrared glow, according to a new study.
Recently discovered invisible corridors, known as “interstellar tunnels,” have been found connecting regions of hot gas in our galaxy to areas of high stellar activity. This revelation upends our understanding of interstellar space, which was long considered an absolute void. Identified through data from the eROSITA space telescope, these interstellar tunnels reveal a much more
Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. “NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to study our home planet to deliver life-saving data into the hands of disaster response and decision-makers every day for the benefit of all, while
For over a century, scientists have puzzled over why the Green River appears to flow “uphill” through the Uinta Mountains in Utah before eventually joining the Colorado River. A new study suggests the answer lies deep beneath the Earth’s surface. A team of geologists led by Adam Smith of the University of Glasgow reports that
Tissue sample collection, preservation and processing Back skin samples from age-matched adults and one litter of neonatal naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) were maintained at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for unrelated studies performed under protocols approved by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Institutional Animal
Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ancient life form is not a plant, animal or fungi and instead may be a completely unknown form of multicellular life. “What we