Update Aug. 4, 4:30 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its first stage booster on its droneship.
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The moon is looking brighter every night, and we’re inching closer to the next full moon. But let’s take a look at where we are in the lunar cycle first.
The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of…
The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the Northern Hemisphere.
On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Earth’s solar day will be ever so slightly shorter than usual 24 hours, according to Timeanddate.com, making it not only one of the…
One question has preoccupied humankind for thousands of years: Do infinities exist? More than 2,300 years ago Aristotle distinguished between two types of infinity: potential and actual. The former deals with abstract scenarios that would result…
Florida’s Avon Park bombing range is teeming with life. Over 40 at-risk species occupy this 106,000-acre expanse used by the U.S. Air Force for training exercises.
Conservation biologists from Michigan State University are using the range to test…
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The air we breathe may seem like a permanent feature of our planet, but new research suggests it’s far from eternal. A study published in Nature Geoscience by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Toho University paints a stark picture: Earth’s…
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric…
Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Its observations have stretched cosmologists’ timelines of when galaxies may have first started to form. And now…
More than 6,000 years ago, in the Krumlov Forest of South Moravia in the Czech Republic, two sisters endured a hard life in an ancient mining settlement. Now, thanks to advanced forensic methods and archaeological research, their incredibly…