As NASA prepares to put astronauts on the moon in the next few years, the agency is thinking about “how to live and operate away from the Earth, on other planets” — especially Mars.
Those comments were delivered during a virtual Artemis 4…
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Strange “Halos” on the Ocean Floor off Los Angeles Reveal a Toxic Secret
A discarded barrel on the seafloor off the coast of Los Angeles. The image was taken during a survey in July 2021 by remotely operated vehicle SuBastian. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Once believed to contain the pesticide DDT, new…
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Earth Has Picked Up a New ‘Quasi-Satellite’ – But It Won’t Be Here Long : ScienceAlert
Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual asteroid, somebody somewhere claims it could be an alien interstellar space probe. It’s like one of those laws about…
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See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ Debut
It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and Saturn, while its twin Voyager 2 took…
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Norway fund drops Eramet over Indonesia mine threatening forests, Indigenous tribe
- Norway’s $1.6 trillion government pension fund is divesting its $6.8 million stake in French miner Eramet after its ethics council found “unacceptable risk” of severe environmental damage and human rights…
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Here’s How to Deflect a Dangerous Asteroid Without It Totally Backfiring
In September 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, successfully altering the space rock’s trajectory. The orbital shove demonstrated an asteroid deflection technique that…
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Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft suffers thruster issue on way to the International Space Station
The debut mission of Northrop Grumman’s new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn’t go off without a hitch.
The company’s first “Cygnus XL” freighter suffered a thruster issue in orbit early Tuesday morning (Sept. 16), two days after launching toward the
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CoQ10 shows promise in boosting female fertility by reviving aging eggs
A new review suggests CoQ10 could rejuvenate aging oocytes and enhance embryo quality, offering hope for women facing age-related fertility challenges while spotlighting the need for rigorous clinical trials.
Review: Exploring the…
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Two-step blood and scan strategy delivers near-perfect accuracy for early Alzheimer signs
A simple blood test for p-tau217, when combined with confirmatory brain scans or CSF analysis, could transform early Alzheimer’s detection and cut the burden of invasive procedures.
Study: Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 to Identify…
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Forget supercomputers — scientists say a laptop could map the universe in minutes
As you might imagine, mapping the universe on the largest of scales and tracing threads of the cosmic web is no mean feat.
To do so, you’d need to take observational evidence and combine it with theoretical models such as the Effective Field…
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