People wait at Sants train station in Barcelona, Spain, during a power outage. (Photo: Gian Marco Benedetto/Anadolu via Getty Images) On Monday morning, April 28, a rare international power outage affected all of Spain and Portugal, as well as parts…
Representatives from SPHEREx, NASA's spectrophotometer designed to study the history of the universe, the epoch of reionization and ice exploration, recently visited the New York Stock Exchange to ring the closing bell. Several members of the SPHEREx team, including flight…
China has allowed six countries, including the United States, to study moon rocks leased from its Chang'e-5 lunar mission in 2020. Shan Zhongde of the China National Space Administration told local media that the moon rocks were “a common asset…
Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, raised the risks of antibiotic resistance in his Nobel speech. (Photograph: Peter Purdy via Getty Images) Germ theory wasn’t always universally accepted. The now-conventional concept—the notion that human diseases can be caused by…
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening, carrying 28 more V2 Starlink mini-satellites into low Earth orbit as part of its mission to expand its growing network of internet satellites. It was SpaceX's 475th Falcon…
SpaceX plans to launch more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit Thursday evening from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 6-74 mission will launch 28 additional Starlink V2 Mini satellites using a Falcon 9 rocket, as is…