Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.
The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s overall funding to just three quarters of what…
The patient: A 41-year-old woman in Beijing
The symptoms: The patient went to the hospital because she felt like there was something stuck in her right eye. When doctors looked at her eye, they noted that its outer surface, the cornea, appeared…
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly 10,000 galaxies of diverse ages, sizes, shapes, and colors in a single frame. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revisited the same region…
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver a pair of rovers and three scientific instruments to the moon’s south pole.
Targeted for landing in 2029, the mission will be the first under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload…
While they are already glittering across the evening sky, the most popular meteor shower is about to reach its peak, with a chance of large fireballs exploding against the black backdrop of night.
The Perseid meteor shower has already streaked…
Roy Cabal was on the beach Sunday in Pacific City when a co-worker alerted him to an unusual sight nearby: a shark wiggling in the sand.
The young fish was there for about 20 minutes near Bob Straub State Park before waves washed it back out to…
The moon looks almost full tonight, but it’s not quite there. We’ve even got a few more days before we hit that part of the lunar cycle.
The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the…
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the “clocks” geologists use to date events…
The highly anticipated launch of the Dream Chaser spaceplane may be delayed yet again as Sierra Space continues to test its experimental vehicle.
The inaugural Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, is slated…