Category: Science

Photo: NASA The International Space Station is set to die soon, with SpaceX contracted to deal the killing blow sometime in 2030. Now, after a test last Friday from one … Read More

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the … Read More

The abundance of carbon dioxide in Mars’ atmosphere presents a unique opportunity for scientists aiming to create essential resources directly on the Red Planet. Researchers at the University of British … Read More

Astronomers have introduced a groundbreaking approach to detect potentially hazardous long-period comets (LPCs) years before they get close to Earth, using trails of meteoroids—or “crumb trails”—left behind as these comets … Read More

File: A stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites, which included the first six featuring Direct to Cell capabilities. The batch launched on the Starlink 7-9 mission, which lifted off from Vandenberg … Read More

Macrograph of an approximately 70 µm amber extracted from the lignite in the sediments of the MeBo core. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / V. Schumacher Until recently, a gap existed in the … Read More

Researchers have observed a large black hole that gained mass at a rate much faster than scientists had thought possible. New observations from the Webb telescope involve the largest kind … Read More

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees this week, director Laurie Leshin said in a memo to staff sent Tuesday afternoon. The La Cañada Flintridge … Read More

There are good reasons to keep an eye on the Leonid meteors this year. It’s still one of the coolest things I ever saw. I was in the US Air … Read More

How the same region of the universe would look in terms of the amount of stars for different values of the dark energy density. Clockwise, from top left, no dark … Read More