Astronauts insist space has a smell — a mix of seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes that clings to a suit after every spacewalk
The strangest thing about the smell of space is that no one can smell space directly. Vacuum does…
CUNY physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in a historic lab experiment
A black hole may be millions of light-years away, but some of its strangest physics has now been…
NASA Study Points To Smoother Air Taxi Rides
Matt Kamlet, an employee at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, sits atop the virtual reality…
Dolphin deaths in South Australia spike after algal bloom decimates food sources | Marine life
The number of dead dolphins washing up on South Australian beaches spiked in 2025, according to long-term data…
NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides
No one wants to get into an uncomfortable aircraft. NASA research could help the emerging industry of air…
FSU researcher creates seawater isotope database to improve climate reconstructions, projections
A Florida State University paleoclimatologist led the creation of a global database hosting thousands of seawater isotope measurements…
How the SKA Will Use Fast Radio Bursts to Decode the Universe
There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes.…
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans
Clouds formed from vaporized rock could create the ultimate thermal insulation on one of the most common types…
New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home
The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost…
Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet
Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By…
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch a flight-proven Falcon booster for 600th time – Spaceflight Now
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force…
World’s first cyclic quantum heat engine built for quantum computers
Scientists at Aalto University in Finland have built the world’s first cyclic heat engine, operating inside a superconducting…