Crystalline Clocks Confirm Earth’s Oldest Crater
A chip of zircon found in Western Australian rocks at a place called North Pole Dome revealed the…
NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?
NASA is hoping to use drones to speed up organ delivery for transplant patients. A flight test earlier…
Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin
This week, we’ve taken one tantalizing step closer to finding out if there really was life on Mars,…
Distant galaxy could produce universe’s most mysterious particles
A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth.…
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station witness 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every 24 hours, orbiting Earth once every 90 minutes while traveling 5 miles a second
Aboard the International Space Station right now, crew members are watching the Sun drop below Earth’s limb roughly…
SpaceX Employees Get Rich Off IPO While Blue Origin Workers Miss Out
SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO has turned former employees into millionaires — and left alums of a rival rocket company…
“People think science is about the truth. It’s not” – Why everything we know about the Universe could be mere guesswork
I’m convinced that, when I was a physics student, a lecturer quoted: “There’s speculation, then there’s more speculation,…
For nearly forty years, scientists aimed lasers at the Moon and got nothing back from the Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 — then in 2010, a pulse bounced straight back from a reflector that had been sitting in the lunar dust the whole time
For nearly forty years, one of the Moon’s most useful mirrors sat in silence. It was not broken.…
SpaceX won a NASA contract worth up to $843 million to build a single machine whose only job is to drag the space station out of orbit and into the Pacific Ocean
SpaceX signed a contract with NASA in June 2024 worth up to $843 million to build one machine,…
How NASA Taught Four Astronauts to Read the Moon
How do you teach someone to look at the Moon? Not glance at it, the way we all…
400 Days To The ‘Eclipse Of The Century’ — Why You Need To Make A Plan
Topline On Aug. 2, 2027, the moon’s shadow will race across parts of southern Spain, North Africa and…
2 Reasons Not to Invest in SpaceX — and What to Buy Instead
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) might be the hottest stock on Wall Street right now. It completed the…