Painting the Growing Season in the Maize Triangle
Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how they changed during the Southern Hemisphere’s growing season.
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Breaks The Rules of Astrophysics
“It’s a paradigm shift, a total revisiting of the classical scenarios.”
Heron-like, fish-eating dinosaur from 70 million years ago discovered in Argentina
A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed from southern Patagonia. The new species, which has been named Kank australis, …
NASA’s X-59 Prepares for First Supersonic Flight
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is preparing for some of its most significant flights yet. The X-plane is about to begin a new block of test
Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?
“While mass drivers can bootstrap an off-world economy, they carry an equally potent and unsettling military capability: the ability to operate as an unassailable, undetectable first-strike platform.”
Peering into the Milky Way’s far side, Roman could unveil 100,000 worlds
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds—a …
‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First
A recent Webb discovery defies the classic scenario of how black holes form and grow.
NASA is hatching a ‘fast-paced plan’ to boost this space telescope. But first, they’ll have to find it
“These predictions evolve over time, based on space weather forecasts and other factors like Swift’s current height and orientation.”
NASA Goes Big: 3 Moon Missions In 2026 To Start Lunar Base
NASA is revealing its ambitious, nearly $1 billion plan to build the first permanent base on the moon’s South Pole.
NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate
Scientists analyzed 20 Martian samples collected by NASA’s Curiosity Rover and found that differences in hematite crystallite size at varying elevations could serve as a new mineralogical marker for understanding Mars’ ancient climate.