Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space on SpaceX Starship mission to the moon
ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX’s Starship megarocket. The Tokyo-based company announced today…
Earth’s Longest Volcanic Ridge May Be an Underwater Moving Hotspot
Ninetyeast Ridge, the long, pale-blue line slicing through the Indian Ocean near 90 degrees east, is the largest…
Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e-waste
The UK has some of the oldest houses in Europe. Half of the homes in England are rated…
This is one hour of satellite trails over the world’s darkest sky. Astronomers say nearly 2 million planned satellites could be ‘devastating’
The amount of artificial satellites in the sky is getting worse and, if left untempered, will brighten the…
Scientists Heard the Fireball No Camera Could See
What do you do when a fireball lights up the sky and every camera meant to capture it…
The Arctic Ocean May Have Passed a Crucial Tipping Point That Could Harm Food Webs and Worsen Climate Change
Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that…
NASA’s mission to save the falling Swift Satellite : Short Wave : NPR
Kieran Wilson, LINK’s principal investigator, and Hunter Robertson, a space systems engineer, both at Katalyst Space, stand next…
Neutrinos Are Worth a Thousand Words!
Press enter or click to view image in full size(Image credit: Greg Wyatt) We are due to witness…
Another Super El Niño is brewing. Scientists are looking at a controversial solution to squash them
A Super El Niño is brewing and it could be the most intense in decades, threatening a dramatic…
Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million light-years away
Images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed new secrets about a nearby galaxy, leaving…
Laser light controls molecular structures
Researchers from the Molecular Physics and Physical Chemistry Departments of the Fritz Haber Institute have shown how two…
In a 3.5-billion-year-old clay-rich rock from Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover identified 21 carbon-based molecules — including a nitrogen-bearing ring structure linked to the chemistry that can precede RNA and DNA — showing that ancient Martian sediments can preserve surprisingly complex organic chemistry for billions of years.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has added a more detailed layer to one of the hardest questions in Mars science:…