ScienceSpaceflight India’s Moon Mission Uncovers Key Findings at the South Pole The Chandrayaan-3 rover found traces of a volatile element in the previously unexplored polar region. By Passant Rabie Published August 30, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Hackers Force Shutdown of Two Key Astronomical Observatories Operations at both the North and South Gemini telescopes have been temporarily suspended following a cybersecurity incident, the nature of which is unclear. By George Dvorsky Updated August 30, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Nuclear Weapons Partly Responsible for Radioactive Wild Boars, Researchers Say A specific isotope of cesium has been linked to nuclear weapons, and not Chernobyl—the previous suspected cause. By Isaac Schultz Published August 30, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Hubble, Webb Telescopes Team Up to Study Jupiter’s Tumultuous Volcanic Moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system, with hundreds of volcanoes that erupt with massive fountains of lava. By Passant Rabie Published August 29, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Good News Everyone: We Found a New Species of Roundworm That Can Infect Our Brains In a report this week, doctors have documented the first case of a human brain infection caused by a roundworm normally found in Australian snakes. By Ed Cara Published August 29, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Archaeologists in Peru Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Priest’s Burial Site The burial site contained grave goods and the prehistoric individual’s intact skeleton. By Isaac Schultz Published August 29, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Having Conquered the Moon, India Now Looks to the Sun India's space agency is launching its first mission to the Sun on September 2 to learn more about space weather. By Passant Rabie Published August 29, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Elon Musk Responds to DOJ Lawsuit Against SpaceX’s Alleged Hiring Discrimination The Justice Department is suing SpaceX for discriminating against refugees and asylum seekers in its hiring policies. By Passant Rabie Published August 29, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight India’s Moon Mission Makes Unprecedented Measurements at the Lunar South Pole Less than a week after its historic landing on the Moon, Chandrayaan-3 measured the temperature profile of the south pole soil. By Passant Rabie Published August 28, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight ULA Set for Launch of Atlas ‘Bruiser’ Rocket for Space Force Threat Tracking Mission United Launch Alliance's Silent Barker mission is set for launch on Tuesday morning at 8:34 a.m. ET, and you can catch the action live right here. By Kevin Hurler Updated August 28, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace What to Know About Wednesday’s ‘Super Blue Moon’ The supermoon is the second this month after August 1’s "Sturgeon Moon." By Isaac Schultz Published August 28, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Upcoming Japanese Space Venture Features X-Ray Satellite for Exploring the Universe’s Biggest Structures The upcoming launch will also include an experimental lunar lander to pinpoint landing areas on the Moon. By Passant Rabie Published August 28, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace Webb Telescope Data Suggests There May Not Be a Ton of Supermassive Black Holes A deep look at the Extended Groth Strip suggests the universe may be a more stable place than previously thought. By Isaac Schultz Published August 25, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Watch Live as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Launches to the ISS The Crew-7 mission is scheduled for launch on Friday at 3:50 a.m. ET. By Passant Rabie Published August 24, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Feds Accuse SpaceX of Hiring Discrimination Against Refugees and Asylees Elon Musk's private space company wrongly claimed that export control laws prevented it from hiring non-U.S. citizens. The Justice Department is suing. By Passant Rabie Published August 24, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight A Space Junk Removal Mission Got Struck By Space Junk The ClearSpace-1 mission was going to chuck a defunct payload adapter to its fiery death, but another piece of space debris got to it first. By Passant Rabie Published August 23, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology X-Ray Analysis of Pompeii Victims’ Bones Suggest They Suffocated to Death Chemical analysis of the 2,000-year-old remains was manageable despite contamination of the remains from plaster casts. By Isaac Schultz Published August 23, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnthropology Malaysian Cave Art Appears to Depict Colonial-Era Conflicts Rock art figures in Gua Sireh Cave have been dated to around the 18th century. By Isaac Schultz Published August 23, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceGenetics Hawaiian Officials Request DNA Samples From Relatives of People Missing in Maui Wildfires Thousands of people are missing from wildfires that swept through Maui earlier this month, prompting officials to ask for DNA samples to identify the remains. By Nikki Main Published August 23, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight India Becomes the Fourth Country Ever to Land on the Moon The Chandrayaan-3 mission is also the first lander to touch down on the Moon's south pole. By Passant Rabie Published August 23, 2023 | Comments (0)
