Curiosity can handle the harsh radiation on the Martian surface. But people can’t. There’s no safe place to camp out on Mars. But a team of researchers has identified what could be future Martian explorers’ best possible hideout: a string…
An artist’s depiction of a lunar lander in Russia’s second-generation Luna program. Russia hasn’t been to the moon since 1976, but the country hopes to soon pick up where it left off. The nation has a suite of three moon…
The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. Appropriately enough, the name of Elon Musk’s newborn son contains a tribute to pioneering aerospace tech. The decidedly unusual (and apparently illegal, at least in California) name, X Æ A-12, was devised primarily by the…
Remains of the entrance gate to the ancient city of Megiddo, otherwise known as Armageddon. Megiddo is an archaeological site that was inhabited between roughly 7000 B.C. and 300 B.C. Numerous battles were fought near Megiddo during that time, and…
Even if you’re stuck indoors during the pandemic, you can still catch May’s full moon, the last supermoon of 2020, which will appear full from Tuesday evening through Friday morning (May 5-8). Technically, the full moon, which will be in…
Training dogs to smell COVID-19 could help with early detection of the disease. Scientists are training dogs to identify COVID-19 by following their noses. A new program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) is putting noses…
A photo shows two researchers in a rowboat inside the Super Kamiokande detector, which detects neutrinos as they slam into water molecules. Inside a cavern, buried beneath a mountain in Japan, there’s a giant tank of water that has been…
An artist’s impression of the star S2 precessing around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been proven right (again!), thanks to the wobbly dance of a high-speed star swirling around…
An illustration of the asteroid collision that may have resulted in the formation of Fomalhaut b — an alleged exoplanet that may just be a big cloud of dust. In 2014, a planet disappeared from the night sky. The distant…
Scientists suspect that the complex life that slithers and crawls through every nook and cranny on Earth emerged from a random shuffling of non-living matter that ultimately spit out the building blocks of life. Even so, the details to support…
An artist’s interpretation of the Big Bang. In the beginning, there was an infinitely dense, tiny ball of matter. Then, it all went bang, giving rise to the atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies we see today. Or at least, that’s…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket making its fourth trip to space launches 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Nov. 11, 2019. SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites into…