Something Made Earth’s Molten Core Reverse Direction in 2010
This is freaking weird.
Bizarre ‘witch croc’ that looks just like a dinosaur discovered in New Mexico
It might look like a dinosaur, but this strange, newly-discovered Triassic reptile belongs to the evolutionary lineage that led to crocodiles…
Figuring Out What James Webb’s Mysterious Little Red Dots Are
After the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations in 2022, it soon made a tantalizing discovery in the form of mysterious red dots: small, red-tinted astronomical objects of unknown orig…
Divers may think they protect reefs, but one unseen habit is taking a steady toll
Research at the University of Sydney has found that scuba-diving tourism—widely promoted as a sustainable way to experience coral reefs—is causing frequent and often hidden damage to fragile marine ecosystems.
A space telescope orbiting Earth just picked up the same strange signature buried in every kind of cosmic ray it can detect — and it’s a fingerprint physicists have been quietly waiting on since 1912
Cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, who conducted a series of balloon flights into the upper atmosphere and demonstrated that the level of ionizing radiation in the air increased with altitude rather than decreasing, as the prevailing terrestrial-radioactivity hypothesis would have predicted. The radiation, Hess concluded, was coming […]
The Opportunity rover’s famous last words — “my battery is low and it’s getting dark” — were never actually sent from Mars. The real story of where that sentence came from is stranger, and somehow sadder
If you spend any time online, you’ve almost certainly encountered the story. When NASA’s Opportunity rover died on Mars, the tale goes, its final transmission was heartbreakingly human. As a planet-wide dust storm blotted out the sun and its solar panels failed, the little rover sent one last message home: my battery is low and […]
Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter
Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The discovery may finally explain the origins of several mysterious meteorite types that have survived since the birth of the Solar System.
China Launched Artificial Embryos to Orbit to Find Out If We Can Have Space Babies
Human reproduction beyond Earth is no longer reserved for science fiction.
New three‑dimensional magnetic structure discovered with laser light
Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers …
Vandenberg’s Next Mission: SpaceX Rocket Launch Tuesday Morning
What: Falcon 9 rocket launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: Between 7 and 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to SpaceX. If