NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Faintest Exoplanet Ever Imaged Was in Archives for 11 Years
Astronomers have directly imaged the faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth, a gas giant called Beta Pictoris d…
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond…
Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the reverse version spins 50 times slower
False-color particles reveal water flowing into a reverse sprinkler, making the invisible movement of fluid clearly visible.Photo credit:…
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart),…
Why a T rex skeleton selling for $50m is damaging science – The Times
Why a T rex skeleton selling for $50m is damaging science The TimesMystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed ‘Gus’…
Elon Musk Says If SpaceX Accomplishes Its Goals, ‘It Will Be Worth More Than The Rest of Earth’ — Though He’s Also Said ‘Money Will Stop Being Relevant’
Image of CEO Elon Musk by Frederic Legrand – COMEO via Shutterstock Trying to predict Elon Musk’s vision…
Drivers On Wyoming’s Remote Roads Hit A Lot Of Wildlife, And Deer Most Of All
Collisions between cars and wildlife are notoriously bad for all involved, though sometimes lucky drivers walk away without…
Astronomers discover a helium atmosphere around a potentially habitable Earth-like planet for the first time ever: ‘It’s absolutely exciting!’
Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet beyond our solar system has managed to…
NASA Shares Beautiful Timelapse Of The Psyche Spacecraft’s View Over Mars
The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the…
Brought to Australia for sport hunting in the 1800s, foxes devastated native wildlife, so in 1996 the country scaled up poison baiting, and the woylie and numbat began bouncing back | World News
Brought to Australia for sport hunting in the 1800s, foxes devastated native wildlife. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. At…
A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material
A cross-section of a bristle worm jaw sample with the indentation testing sites labeled 1 to 11. Credit:…