Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another
SCIENCE The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone It is half a century since…
The JWST Spies Six Galaxies Becoming One
The JWST has captured a kind of ancestral galactic portrait that highlights how modern galaxies and their black…
Better Buy: SpaceX or the “Magnificent Seven”?
For years, the members of the “Magnificent Seven” were among the 10 largest companies in the world by…
A Star Dying by the Wrong Rules
How do you watch a star die? If it lives alone, like our Sun, it’s rather more difficult.…
NASA’s Lucy finds a wobbling peanut-shaped asteroid with signs of ancient water
Even relatively small asteroids can have surprisingly eventful histories. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently revealed that asteroid Donaldjohanson is…
Less than a third of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards, meaning humanity currently knows more about the surface of Mars than about the seabed covering two thirds of its own planet
The Seabed 2030 project has lifted global ocean-floor coverage from 6% to approximately 28.7% since its launch in…
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea
The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via…
Some of the water sitting in your glass is older than the Sun having formed inside interstellar clouds billions of years before the solar system existed
A glass of water looks like one of the most local things in the world. It comes from…
Why Mars May Remain Uninhabitable for Centuries
Realistic image of a completely terraformed Mars. Credit: Daein Ballard Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle,…
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
In a written response to the report, the chief of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Directorate, Lori Glaze, said the…
Detection of anisotropic cosmic structures on a gigaparsec scale
Weinberg, S. Cosmology (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008). Aghanim, N. et al. Planck 2018 results. V. CMB power spectra…
We finally have an opening date for the California Science Center’s space shuttle–centric expansion
After breaking ground on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center four years ago, the California Science Center…