Science News for English Learners

A big storm hit the UK at the weekend. Its name was Storm Boelo. Two men died in the storm. Trees fell on them. Many homes lost power. The wind was very strong. The weather office told people to stay inside.

A SpaceX rocket went up from Florida on Tuesday. It was early in the morning. The sun was not up yet. The rocket made a bright cloud. It looked like a jellyfish. Many people saw it. Why did this happen?

Two scientists won a big prize. It is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. One man is from France. The other man is from Japan. They study very small things called molecules. Many molecules have two shapes.

Starship is a space ship from SpaceX. It flies around Earth for the first time. This happens on September 28. The ship leaves from Texas. One engine stops working. An engine gives the ship power.

Scientists found a new kind of wild cat. It lives in the forests of Bolivia. It is the first new cat in over 100 years. It is small, with brown fur and spots. A person found the cat and took it home.

Mercury is the smallest planet. It is near the Sun. A new study says Mercury gets smaller. It lost more size than scientists thought. The middle of Mercury is big and very hot. Now it slowly gets cooler.

Scotty was the biggest T. Rex ever found. It lived 66 million years ago. People found its bones in Canada in 1991. Scotty was very big and very heavy. One bone still had soft parts inside. This is very rare.

NASA is the US space team. NASA will send a new telescope to space. Its name is Roman. A rocket will carry it from Florida. The telescope has a strange story. A spy group gave NASA a satellite. Nobody was using it.

Scientists say a very strong El Niño is coming. El Niño is a change in the Pacific Ocean. The water becomes much warmer than usual. It is already 2C too warm. El Niño comes back every few years.

Scientists found a new kind of thing in space. They call it a "black hole star". It is very far away. It is as big as our solar system. It shines with red light. The thing is a black hole. Thick gas covers it.

An old rocket will hit the Moon. It is part of a SpaceX rocket. It will hit on Wednesday. It is very fast. The crash will be very strong. Nobody planned this. The rocket went into space in 2025. Then it had no fuel.

Jodrell Bank is a big telescope in England. It is almost 70 years old. Now it may close. The UK government will stop paying for it in 2028. Work at Jodrell Bank started in 1945.

Scientists found air around a planet. The planet is very far from Earth. It moves around a small star. This is the first time. Scientists never found air on a planet like this. The planet is not too hot.

Wally Funk was a pilot. She flew into space. She was the oldest woman in space. She died on Wednesday. She was 87 years old. She fell down many times. Funk wanted to go to space. In the 1960s, she did hard space tests.

NASA is the US space team. It wants to save an old telescope. The telescope is called Swift. Swift is falling slowly to Earth. NASA sent a robot to help. Swift went into space in 2004. Now it falls faster.

NASA is the US space team. NASA looked at Titan. Titan is a big moon near Saturn. Titan is full of fuel. One day, ships could get fuel there. The fuel is like oil and gas. The Moon and Mars have very little.

Divers filmed a big white shark under the sea. It was near Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. People think this is the first video like this. The divers saw the shark in May. Great white sharks are now very rare here.

Praveen Gowtham is 43 years old. He works as a scientist. He lost his right arm as a baby. Now he has a new 3D-printed bionic arm. He is the world's first to get this arm. A team made the arm.

NASA is the US space team. NASA picked Jeff Bezos's company for the Moon. They will not send people. The first trip is in late 2026. The team will fly to the Moon's south. There may be ice there. NASA wants this water.

A US company has big news. It hatched 26 baby chickens in fake shells. The shells are not real. Scientists made them. The company wants to bring extinct birds back. The company wants to bring back a big bird.

The U.S. government showed UFO files to the public. UFOs are things people see in the sky. The government has more than 160 files. The president said the files should be public. The files are very old.

Mexico City is sinking. New space pictures show this clearly. Some places drop by more than two centimetres a month. A space satellite called NISAR took the pictures. NASA (the US space team) and India built it together.

An old Soviet spaceship fell to Earth on Saturday. Its name was Kosmos 482. It was in space for more than 50 years. The Soviet Union sent it to space in 1972. They wanted it to go to Venus. Venus is a very hot planet.

Four astronauts went to the Moon. They came back on Friday. The trip took ten days. It was the first Moon trip in fifty years. They flew very, very far from Earth. The astronauts said the trip was amazing.