Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / You spent the money to build it and put it into orbit? Twice? Doesn’t matter, shut it down. reader comments 218 Share this story Today,…
Spread the loveTweet reader comments 252 Share this story There are plenty of places where you can find dodgy information about climate change. If you’re the arguing (“debating”) type, you…
Spread the loveTweet If you’re on the east coast and see some odd-colored clouds in the sky, it’s probably science’s fault. NASA, America’s second-coolest space agency, is testing a new…
Spread the loveTweet reader comments 24 Share this story This is a post-UK broadcast review of Doctor Who: Empress of Mars. River Song always warned the Doctor against spoilers, so…
Spread the loveTweet The study centers around an effect called gravitational microlensing. And the idea is that supermassive objects, such as stars, can bend light that passes by them. The…
Spread the loveTweet NASA has greenlighted three of its teams of researchers to perform feasibility studies on projects that could pave the way for autonomous drones and self-driving cars to…
Spread the loveTweet The only objects denser than neutron stars are black holes, and they typically happen when stars over 20 times the mass of our sun explode. NICER principal…
Spread the loveTweet Watch NASA officially announce the details and the launch date for its Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, which will venture on an extraordinary mission to touch the sun…
Spread the loveTweet Image: NASA Leland Melvin is a unicorn of a human being. He’s been drafted to the NFL, flown in the final frontier (twice), and now, written a…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / Jupiter’s chaotic, cyclone-filled poles. J.E.P. Connerney et al., Science reader comments 29 Share this story It’s hard to imagine that the Solar System’s biggest planet,…