Sitting on a crowded island with no natural freshwater sources of your own is an uncomfortable position for a country to be in. There are no large rivers or natural lakes, and limited land to catch ...
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate platform near what is now Chicxulub, on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It opened a ...
A representative Antarctic ice shelf photographed by Francesco Ungaro via Pexels. It is not Lake Vostok or the inland ice above it; the subglacial lake is invisible from the surface. At Russia’s ...
Voyager 1, the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space, carries a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding music, spoken greetings, and the sounds of Earth. The popular ...
The Huygens probe, dropped from the Cassini orbiter in January 2005, parachuted through an orange smog and photographed something no camera had ever seen from the ground: a floodplain of rounded ...
The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn’s rings are around 400 million years old. The actual finding, published by Sascha Kempf and colleagues in Science Advances in May ...
SpaceX lofted another batch of classified U.S. spy satellites into orbit Monday night, extending a buildout of the National Reconnaissance Office’s distributed surveillance network that has now become ...
Conceptual artwork of a distant planet. Image by Rodolfo Boscan via Pexels. This is a representative illustration, not an observed image or scientific reconstruction of LHS 1140 b. A planet 48 ...
A pocket of dark blue water beneath ice on Earth. Photo by wal_ 172619 via Pexels; this is a representative image, not a photograph of a moon. Liquid water is not confined to Earth or to worlds close ...
A Project West Ford dipole dispenser and canister on display at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Photo: GeneralNotability / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 In May 1963, about 3,600 ...
NASA’s Artemis site selection team finished the most exhaustive survey of the lunar South Pole ever attempted and came back with a list that would fit on an index card: candidate regions where the ...
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop and reconsider what living somewhere else would even feel like. Saturn’s largest moon is the only other ...
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