Mysterious tar balls wash up on New Jersey beaches
Authorities in New Jersey are investigating after they were notified of mysterious tar balls peppering the beaches of the Jersey Shore. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), the New Jersey Department…
Join 900,000 others who are sending names into space on NASA spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon, Europa
Have you ever dreamed of going to space? Well, now part of you can, through NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign. Since June 1, 2023, NASA has been collecting names…
COP28 Climate Talks: What to Expect and What It Means for Our Energy Future
This July, as heatwaves swept across Europe and the US, NASA and the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service both made a damning prediction: 2023 was set to be the…
World’s biggest iceberg starts moving for first time in decades — and it could cause some serious problems
The world’s largest iceberg has moved for the first time in 30 years after finally freeing itself from the ocean floor near Antarctica — and it could end up causing…
NASA receives laser beam from 10 million miles away: ‘First light’
To infinity and beyond? A NASA spacecraft has beamed a near-infrared laser nearly 10 million miles into space breaking new ground for the agency. The laser, which is encoded with…
Red nation on the red planet? This communist country’s latest venture could be key to human activity on Mars
A robotic space chemist could create oxygen on Mars using materials from the planet’s surface, Chinese researchers behind the project say. A refrigerator-sized machine equipped with artificial intelligence and a…
This record-breaking black hole could solve a galactic mystery billions of years in the making
The most distant and oldest black hole ever seen using NASA telescopes may explain how some of the celestial voids in the universe formed, according to the agency’s Chandra X-ray…
COP28 Climate Summit: What to Expect and What It Means for Our Energy Future
This July, as heatwaves swept across Europe and the US, NASA and the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service both made a damning prediction: 2023 was set to be the…
NASA surprised to discover ‘dinky’ moon orbiting asteroid in close flyby
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which was launched in October 2021 to research Jupiter’s asteroids, snapped a picture of a smaller asteroid near Mars last week, which presented scientists with a shocking…
NASA reveals ‘ghostly cosmic hand’ 16,000 light-years from Earth
Is it Halloween in outer space? NASA has released X-ray images of a dead collapsed star that looks eerily like the bones of a “ghostly cosmic hand.” The spooky images,…