Astronaut Jessica Meir Assists With Hardware Updates for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to the agency’s Cold Atom Lab, or…
Mexico’s Atlantic coast is hiding rocky reefs scientists had overlooked
Sail north from the beach at Progreso, Mexico, and the seafloor appears unremarkable. Survey charts show a flat…
SpaceX’s plan: Put all the data centers in space, then profit
The world’s most valuable companies are almost impossible to avoid. One makes your iPhone. One delivers packages to…
Weather models got sharper, but they still miss extreme storms
It feels safe to assume that a sharper weather model must be a more accurate one. Today’s global…
The Chinese scientists hoping to use a space solar plant to power the world
Using a few mirrors, solar panels and a microwave transmitter, Fan Guanheng and his team can send power…
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in the first 52 seconds of flight, filling the spacecraft with warning lights and turning Mission Control’s data into nonsense — until a young controller named John Aaron recognised an obscure failure pattern and calmly said: “Try SCE to Aux.”
Apollo 12 had been flying for barely half a minute when it was struck by lightning, and then…
FIFA World Cup ball sent to space aboard ISS
Astronauts aboard the ISS recreated a 2019 experiment using the official adidas 2026 FIFA World Cup ball, Trionda,…
Scientists uncover what makes elephant trunks tough and gentle
An elephant’s trunk is one of the most versatile tools in nature. It can drag a fallen tree…
Earth might avoid being swallowed by dying sun: Study
The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying sun, which has long been…
Capturing fog to make water
FAO Feature Story In Chile, a community transforms fog into a source of water to cope with water…
A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation
The upper stage from a commercial Chinese rocket that launched last week has broken apart in space, spreading…
NASA’s Soon-to-Launch Telescope Is Expected to Unveil Distant Worlds, ‘Millions’ of Stars’ and ‘Billions of Galaxies’
NEED TO KNOW NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center…