Image: NASA Today, Cassini prepares to once again boldly go where no spacecraft has gone before: into the gap between Saturn and its rings. While we’re all excited to see the the results of Cassini’s second dive, astronomers are still parsing through the findings from her first. And some, including a soundscape generated from the […]
Jason Daley is a Madison, Wisconsin-based writer specializing in natural history, science, travel, and the environment. His work has appeared in Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Men’s Journal, and other magazines. Read more from this author | Follow @jasondaley608 Antarctica’s Blood Falls Helps Unravel the Inner Workings of Glaciers – Smithsonian
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a fight over the federal government’s designation of a vast area in Alaska a critical habitat for polar bears, turning aside a challenge by the state, its native peoples and the oil and gas industry. Alaska, the Alaska Federation of Natives and the Alaska […]
SpaceX recovered the Falcon 9 First stage rocket after using it to launch the classified National Reconnaissance Organization or NRO satellite, dubbed NROL-76, into the Earth’s orbit on Monday, May 1. This is the first time that SpaceX has launched a highly classified intelligence satellite. The successful operation may lead to more such launches in the […]
To this day, the Saturn V remains the largest and most powerful rocket NASA has ever blasted into space, which is perfectly reflected in Lego’s new Apollo Saturn V model. That model stands a full meter (over 39 inches) in height, with the Apollo lunar lander, lunar orbiter, and astronauts, hidden away inside. Advertisement The […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fired into space from Florida’s Atlantic coastline Monday with a clandestine payload for a U.S. government spy agency, then returned to Cape Canaveral for a pinpoint landing. Climbing away from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with 1.7 million pounds of thrust at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT), […]
Most of us, if we encountered what was obviously a waterfall of blood, would turn tail and run. However, geologist Griffith Taylor was made of sterner stuff when he discovered Blood Falls in the early 1900s. This flow of red liquid on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica has been perplexing scientists since it was discovered, but […]
On April 26th, 2017, over 700 million miles away, a small spacecraft made history by plunging between Saturn and its rings. After 2 decades in space and 13 years in orbit around Saturn, this craft has been able to take the most detailed pictures of Saturn in the history of mankind. The craft’s name is […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX has pushed back its first launch of a U.S military satellite for Monday (May 1) after a sensor issue triggered a 24-hour delay on Sunday (April 30). Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office is now targeted between 7 […]
MONTEREY, Calif. — Killer whales are on an unprecedented killing spree in California’s Monterey Bay, attacking and feeding on gray whale calves, a marine biologist said. Since April 20, orcas have killed four gray whale calves in eight days, Nancy Black said Friday. Black, who co-owns Monterey Bay Whale Watch, says a family of nine […]
