Space & Physics

Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour

Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud ...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 27

Rather than getting its water from impacts, our planet may have drawn in water v...

Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way

Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as ...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 17

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed”...

Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by Elon Musk boomed

Space was for sale in 2024 as private missions led by E...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 20

From the first private moon landing to the first civilian spacewalk, Elon Musk’s...

Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens of people

Bird flu suddenly got serious in 2024, infecting dozens...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 20

People in multiple US states tested positive for bird flu this year, raising con...

Dogs pull harder on the leash when they wear a harness than a collar

Dogs pull harder on the leash when they wear a harness ...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 16

Dog harnesses are sometimes claimed to reduce pulling forces on the leash, but a...

Space Meets Sound: NASA Lands in 2024 Spotify Wrapped

Space Meets Sound: NASA Lands in 2024 Spotify Wrapped

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 19

NASA’s audio storytelling reached new frontiers in 2024, with Spotify Wrapped re...

NASA Astronauts O’Hara and Moghbeli Explore Earth Data

NASA Astronauts O’Hara and Moghbeli Explore Earth Data

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 15

On Dec. 4, 2024, NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, left, and Jasmin Moghbeli spent a...

Looking Out for ‘Lookout Hill’

Looking Out for ‘Lookout Hill’

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 17

At Pico Turquino, a bedrock mesa on the Jezero crater rim, the science and engin...

December 2024 Transformer of the Month: Jill Marlowe

December 2024 Transformer of the Month: Jill Marlowe

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 13

If Digital Transformation were a ship, the vessel for delivering on our missions...

Sarah Peacock Surveys Stellar Radiation to Hunt for Habitable Worlds

Sarah Peacock Surveys Stellar Radiation to Hunt for Hab...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 16

Knowing whether or not a planet elsewhere in the galaxy could potentially be hab...

Arctic tundra is now a source – not a sink – of carbon emissions

Arctic tundra is now a source – not a sink – of carbon ...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 18

For millennia, Arctic ecosystems have stored more carbon dioxide than they relea...

50 Years Ago: Launch of Helios 1 to Explore the Sun

50 Years Ago: Launch of Helios 1 to Explore the Sun

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 19

On Dec. 10, 1974, NASA launched Helios 1, the first of two spacecraft to make cl...

NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Reality

NASA Moves Drone Package Delivery Industry Closer to Re...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 16

Package delivery drones are coming to our doorsteps in the future, and NASA want...

NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarctica

NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarc...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 12

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Antarctica’s icy expanse to ki...

Black Hole Jet Stumbles Into Something in the Dark

Black Hole Jet Stumbles Into Something in the Dark

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 18

Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA’...

Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and w...

SIN Dec 11, 2024 0 17

Leading archaeologists share the biggest recent advances in our understanding of...

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