The Moon is getting its own version of air traffic control
Engineers developed a lunar traffic control system to help spacecraft safely dock, park, and avoid collisions around NASA’s…
Thought of the day from Greek philosopher Epicurus: “For the end of all our actions is to be free from pain and fear”
Let’s start with what the sentence does not say. It does not say the goal of life is…
The Trouble With Trump’s Attempt to Rename Lake Ontario
While the standard place naming process is not perfect, it at least establishes an institutional procedure for review,…
Rocket Lab Just Sold Its First Full Neutron Flight to Kepler Communications. Here’s What That Means in Its Competition With SpaceX.
Although it’s now been more than two months since its ballyhooed initial public offering, all eyes are still…
‘Gone too early’: warrior Steve Irwin’s enduring legacy
“She said: “Steve … “. Two decades on, the memories of the man the world knew as the…
NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has vastly outlived its original…
Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point
For years, the economic case for solar came with an awkward qualification. Yes, it had no fuel bill.…
Artemis II astronauts receive nation’s highest space honor for their successful moonshot | Artemis II
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on…
The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved
A small group of woolly mammoths clung to a scrap of land off the Siberian coast for roughly…
Turkiye: 51% New Vehicles are Electric, 60% Power from Renewables, amid Hormuz Energy Shock
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the…
Thousands of Interstellar Objects May Be Lurking in Our Solar System
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that went interstellar, entombed the sky, hit…
Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metres
A whale shark tips nose down, holds its tail almost still, and sinks. The camera watching this is…