Here’s an image of asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 during a flyby of Earth in 1997. The space rock appears as a trail due to its…
Growing food in space: the last frontier
Sure, space travel is great, but there’s no shortage of challenges when it comes to space travel and colonization, primarily having enough oxygen, food, and…
What’s next? 7 nascent technologies for 2022
Solar GeoengineeringShe seems childishly simple. If the world gets too hot, why not offer her some shade? Dust and ash released by volcanoes into the…
We all salute the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the life of the Webb telescope
The Ariane 5 rocket, with the James Webb Space Telescope, at its launch site in French Guiana. This weekend there was two surprisingly good news…
Is time continuous or discrete?
One of the longest running discussions in the history of physics is that which refers to the essential nature of the fabric of reality, the…
James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Deploys Antenna
New from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed a critical antenna on Sunday (December 26), just one day after its Christmas launch into space.…
The 10 wildest things we learned about black holes in 2021
Faster rotating black holeEven the best-studied black holes still provide surprises. In February, physicists revised their estimates of the properties of the cosmic monster at…
A dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg.
Reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur egg.LIDA XING/ISCIENCE The embryo has been found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg which sheds light on the link between the…
Boötes Void: What is This Patch of Space With Few Stars?
Gas cloud Barnard 68 gives us an idea of what a space void might look like if we could peer through the stars at one.…
Why are the snowflakes symmetrical and hexagonal?
There are more than eighty different varieties of snow, but all of them are made up of perfectly symmetrical and hexagonal flakes and, in addition,…