NASA Has the Best Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards
Our love is like Bennu: I thought it was solid, but it turned out to be pretty rocky. NASA Goddard It’s Valentine’s Day. Some people love it. Some people, not…
Scientists Find Fossil of Largest Penguin to Ever Roam Earth
An artist’s reconstruction of Kumimanu fordycei and Petradyptes stonehousei. Simone Giovanardi While searching through the beachy boulders of New Zealand’s South Island, a crew of international scientists stumbled on an…
Frog Named for J.R.R. Tolkien Lives in a ‘Universe of Fantasies’
Hyloscirtus tolkieni hanging out in the forest. Juan Carlos Sánchez-Nivicela / Archive Museo de Zoología, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Deep inside Ecuador’s Río Negro-Sopladora National Park, the line between…
NASA’s Artemis I Launch Was Loud Enough to Damage Your Hearing, Even Miles Away
Artemis I blasts off, Nov. 16, 2022. NASA The first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, on the Artemis I mission in November marked the debut of humanity’s…
New Hubble Telescope image of Saturn reveals mysterious features
A remarkable new image of Saturn was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA said in a release last week that the images mark the start of the planet’s “spoke…
Astronomers Spot Asteroid Hours Before It Turns Into Fireball Over Europe
The fireball as seen at its brightest above France. Twitter @MegaLuigi video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET It may be one of the most widely observed space rocks no one even…
NASA Spots Mysterious Spokes Moving Along Saturn’s Rings
Hubble’s view of Saturn at the start of “spoke season.” NASA, ESA and Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC); image processing by Alyssa Pagan (STScI) There’s something unusual happening in a new Hubble…
Frog Named for Lord of the Rings Creator Lives in a ‘Universe of Fantasies’
Hyloscirtus tolkieni hanging out in the forest. Juan Carlos Sánchez-Nivicela / Archive Museo de Zoología, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Deep inside Ecuador’s Río Negro-Sopladora National Park, the line between…
No Indication of Aliens With Shot-Down Flying Objects, White House Says
The big Chinese balloon was recorded over Montana. Chase Doak video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET It’s been a wild time up high in the sky over the US and Canada…
Blue Origin Works Out How to Turn Moon Dust Into Solar Power
Blue Origin’s solar cell prototype is made entirely of materials extracted from lunar regolith simulant. Blue Origin With its Artemis program, NASA wants to do more than just touch boots…