NASA fully intends to send humans back to the Moon sooner rather than later. Despite funding woes, the agency is still doing its best to hold true to a 2024 deadline set forth by the Trump administration, and things are slowly beginning to come together. In a new blog post, NASAContinue Reading
We know what Neanderthals looked like. Now, thanks to ancient DNA, Israeli scientists have unveiled the appearance of another of our ancient relatives. Very few clues exist about the lives of the Denisovans — cousins of Neanderthals — who went extinct around 50,000 years ago: three teeth, a pinky bone,Continue Reading
cientists have discovered how a spike in carbon dioxide over 50 million years ago may have caused global temperatures to soar to their highest levels in 66 million years—something they have dubbed a “scary finding” in relation to climate change today. The climate model of the Early Eocene—which took placeContinue Reading
Nearly half a billion years ago, there was a huge explosion of species development on Earth, causing the biodiversity of animals to increase dramatically — but the true cause of that event has remained a mystery. In a new paper published on Wednesday in Science Advances, scientists show that the event’s onset coincided withContinue Reading
WASHINGTON-On the face of it, NASA’s newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it’s roughly the size of a compact car; it’s completely autonomous; it’s nuclear powered; and it will hover above the surface of Saturn’sContinue Reading
NASA has partnered with Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop a cubesat satellite that will launch to the same lunar orbit targeted for the agency’s Gateway outpost. The satellite, called the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), is scheduled to launch as early as December 2020Continue Reading
Now that’s an Aquaman. As NASA prepares for a return to the Moon in 2024, it’s using a massive water tank to help prepare potential astronauts for the challenges that come with going into space. The government agency noted that one of the tools it is using in prep for an eventual return isContinue Reading
Feeling as though nobody gets you may be linked to persistent thoughts of death. People who frequently feel alienated, isolated and misunderstood are more likely than others to have thoughts of death and dying swirling around in their minds, new research finds. It’s not yet clear whether these feelings of isolationContinue Reading
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The solar system may have another foreign guest. Both NASA and the European Space Agency are reporting that a newly discovered comet zooming toward the sun is likely from another star. Astronomers said Thursday it’s traveling 93,000 mph (150,000 kph), so fast it likely originated outsideContinue Reading
At first, it was just another bright, fuzzy speck in the sky. But it may turn out to be something much more exciting: the second known object to hurtle through our solar system after leaving another system. Astronomers will need a lot more observations before they can be confident giving the cometContinue Reading