Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule ferry NASA astronauts back to Earth
Back at the end of May, SpaceX became the first private company to launch NASA astronauts into space. Now, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are ready to come home.…
We’re going to record sound on Mars. It’ll be eerie.
Should all go as planned, NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover will plummet through the Martian atmosphere in February 2021, reaching speeds of over 13,000 mph. After landing, NASA engineers will instruct…
See the vile amount of droplets we spew into the air without masks
Researchers filmed the deluge of droplets that spew out of our mouths and noses when we talk, cough, and sneeze. In under two minutes, the video shows how different masks…
Coronavirus infects bear cam rangers in remote Alaska
The coronavirus has reached an isolated part of an already remote national park in Alaska. On Sunday evening, Katmai National Park and Preserve — home to the livestreamed bear cams…
Yes, NASA totally released a trailer for the upcoming Mars launch
July 30. Mark your calendars. That’s when we’re going back to Mars. NASA released what I can only describe as a trailer for the upcoming July 30 launch. The minute-long,…
The largest-ever map of the universe bends the mind
This map looks back in time. Astronomers working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey — a decades-long project to map the universe — recently released a new 3D map of…
First Atlantic hurricane of 2020 forms, churns toward Texas
The first Atlantic hurricane of the year doesn’t usually form until around Aug. 10. Yet, Hurricane Hanna intensified into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday morning, some two…
Hubble’s brand new image of Saturn will blow your mind
Yes, this is a real image of Saturn. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a new, exceptionally crisp picture of the ringed gas giant in early July, and the space agency…
Giant mine in fat bear country just cleared a major hurdle
Alaska’s Bristol Bay, a region teeming with fat bears and the richest run of sockeye salmon in the world, is one of the wildest lands left in North America. Now,…
NASA to send a huge balloon into the stratosphere for deep-space research
The high-altitude balloon will be “the size of a football stadium.”