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 ...
Illustration of a deep-space probe among the stars. Image: Paul Seling / Pexels. In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than ...
When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally splashed down off the Florida panhandle in late March 2025 after more than nine months on the International Space Station, they came home inside a SpaceX ...
Fine filaments and root hairs in topsoil. Arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae themselves are far thinner — 10 to 50 times narrower than a human hair. It would also stretch a little over a tenth of the way ...
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 ...
What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left behind? That is roughly what a team led by ...
Astronauts who spend months on the International Space Station come back to Earth slightly taller than when they left. The effect is real and measured, not an illusion or an anecdote. NASA’s figure, ...
A wide view through the International Space Station's Cupola windows, photographed on June 12, 2013. Image: Luca Parmitano/NASA. Time travel into the future sounds like a fiction problem until it is ...
On a quiet night at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, a pulse of green laser light leaves a 3.5-meter telescope, climbs through the atmosphere, and races toward the Moon. About 1.25 seconds ...
The line, in one form or another, is one of the most cited things Albert Einstein is said to have written. The version that travels furthest is the one above: “The most incomprehensible thing about ...
Neptune photographed by Voyager 2 in 1989. This processed full-disc view shows the Great Dark Spot, bright clouds and atmospheric bands. Source. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. At Neptune’s average distance ...
In October 2002, at the World Space Congress in Houston, the Russian scientist Dimitri Malashenkov presented a paper that corrected the public account of one of the most widely recounted events of the ...
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