Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away
If you go to a national park in one of America’s deserts, you may see signs on the hiking…
Category: Sciences & Technology
James Webb Space Telescope Fully-Focused—Ready for First Images
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally finished aligning its giant gold mirrors which will ensure that all the…
Perseverance Captures Video of Martian Solar Eclipse While Beginning Exploration of River Delta
On April 13th, following 31 days and 3 miles of travel, NASA’s Perseverance Rover arrived at an extinct river…
Pentagon Blocked Release of Data a Study Needed to Prove the First Identified Interstellar Object
In 2014, an object around 1.5 feet across came screaming into the skies above Papua New Guinea before blowing…
Inside SPHEREx, NASA’s New Space Telescope that Will Map the Whole Universe Four Times
PICTURED: The soon-to-launch SPHEREx space observatory. PC: Caltech. Story at a glance… A telescope that will map the entire…
Science Marks Milestone of 5,000th Exoplanet Discovered
Story at a glance… 5,000 planets outside of our solar system have been discovered. The science has advanced rapidly…
Are We About to Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Merger?
PICTURED: Edited Hubble Space Telescope montage (created by NASA) of various galaxies with growing black holes due to collisions…
China Releases its 5-Year Plan for Space
BEIJING, China. January 28th, 2022. The Chinese government released a 5-year plan for the future of its space exploration…
Gene Roddenberry’s Wife’s Ashes to Be Launched into Space Alongside Experimental Moon Lander
PICTURED: Majel Barrett Roddenberry poses with her husband, Gene Roddenberry. PC: Roddenberry Archives. HOUSTON, Texas. January 26th, 2022. When…
Super Light Carbon Found on Mars Points to Life or Annoyingly, Other Processes
PICTURED: Curiosity rover taking a selfie. PC: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS Story at a glance… Curiosity rover has discovered samples of sedimentary…
2022 Space Missions: A New Space Station, Moon Mining, A Mars Rover and Webb’s Debut
Exponential growth in the public and private space sectors are increasing the number of launches yearly, and 2022 promises…
A Christmas Miracle: James Webb Space Telescope Was Launched and is Working
PICTURED: Ariane 5 with the James Webb Space Telescope launches from ELA-3 in French Guiana. PC: ESA. Story at…
2000 Year Old Tomb Confirmed as Belonging to Celebrated Han Emperor
PICTURED: Pottery figurines lie on the floor of the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.…
Teenage Elephants Act Like Delinquents If There Are No Bull Males Around
PICTURED: Adolescent elephants bothering some hippos. PC: Connie Allen, Univ. of Exeter. Released. New research has found that the…
Fossilized Footprints Show Cretaceous Hunting Dinosaurs Were Fast and Surprisingly Agile
PICTURED: One of the La Torre 6A trackway footprints from La Rioja, Spain. PC: Pablo Navarro-Lorbés. Spanish paleontologists studying…
To Nudge an Asteroid NASA to Rely Not on a Missile But a DART
PICTURED: Illustration of the DART spacecraft flying into the asteroid Dimorphos. PC: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. Can slamming an…
From Turkey to Korea, People Share a Common Language Invented to Describe Millet Farming
PICTURED: A woman harvests millet in a field in Zaozhuang city, East China’s Shandong province, on Sept 7, 2016.…
Largest Ever Anglo-Saxon Gold Coin Hoard Found in Norfolk
PICTURED: The Norfolk Hoard, one of the most important ever found. PC: British Museum. Released. A hoard of 131…
Raise a Horn of Mead to the Vikings’ Remarkable Voyage to North America Precisely 1,000 Years Ago—New Research Finds
PICTURED: The reconstructed archaeological site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, also known by the mythical name of “Vinland,” home…
Small Town Sweden Reaches for the Sky Building the World’s Tallest Wooden Skyscraper
PICTURED: The Sara Cultural Center and Wood Hotel, Skellefteå, Sweden. PC: White Arkitekter. Released. Story at a glance… The…