Will the new moon race turn Earth’s nearest neighbor into a dumping ground?
An 8,800-pound (4,000 kilograms) Falcon 9 rocket stage hit the moon last Wednesday (Aug. 5), stirring lunar regolith…
Experts say the Whitewater River at Brookville saw historic rises.
HARRISON, Ohio — At its peak, flood waters from the Whitewater River blanketed fields and stalled cars on…
U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has completed the deployment of two space-surveillance sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites,…
California lawmakers kill grizzly bear reintroduction bill
Lawmakers on Thursday killed a controversial plan that could have allowed grizzly bears to one day return to…
A NASA processor now being tested at JPL is performing 500 times faster than the radiation-hardened chips currently used in spaceflight — yet fits in the palm of a hand and could let future spacecraft make AI-powered decisions on their own when communicating with Earth can take 44 minutes round-trip.
A palm-sized processor undergoing tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced an early result that could reset…
Injured San Dimas mountain lion euthanized, wildlife officials say
The injured mountain lion that wandered into a San Dimas neighborhood a week ago, sparking the temporary closure…
James Webb has found patches of fresh crystalline ice on Europa that should be destroyed by Jupiter’s radiation in less than 15 days — meaning parts of the moon’s frozen surface are being renewed fast enough to keep replacing it, possibly offering clues to activity beneath the ice shell.
Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…
Humpback whale named ‘Chompers’ puts on show off SoCal coast
A popular humpback whale known as “Chompers” has been spotted in the waters off the Southern California coast…
Crocodiles Evolved Backwards From Warm-Blooded Species to Cold-Blooded Killers
Despite an incredible number of visible differences, modern-day crocodiles and birds share a common ancestor dating back to…
Bin sins: common recycling mistakes and how to avoid them | Recycling
Australians consider themselves good recyclers. But while more than 90% say recycling is important, many admit to doing…
Pluto’s sky is blue, chunks of its water-ice mountains float like icebergs across glaciers of frozen nitrogen, and its moon is so large that the two worlds orbit a point in empty space between them — yet Pluto still hasn’t completed a single trip around the Sun since humans discovered it in 1930.
A visitor descending towards Pluto would meet contradictions before reaching the ground. Above lies a blue atmospheric haze,…
80-year-old rescued sea turtle triumphantly returns to ocean
Timmy the 270-pound loggerhead sea turtle was found “splashing erratically” in late July off the coast of the…