by Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Flight control engineers expected to lose contact with the private U.S. lunar lander Odysseus on Tuesday morning and abort the mission five days after a sideways landing, Intuitive Machines, the company behind the spacecraft, said on Monday. It is not yet known how much scientific data may be… Read More »
A dead star, devouring its own planets like an angry cosmic zombie, is scarred by planetary debris. The printed metal scar is located on the surface of this white dwarf star; When the Sun dies, such stellar remnants will remain behind, indicating the existence of “life after death” for planetary systems. The scar on the… Read More »
Scientists looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier”; It was given this nickname because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They found that it began to retreat rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that gives an alarming glimpse of future melting. Thwaites Glacier in… Read More »
Question: My parents’ generation didn’t think menopause was a big deal. But my friends and I agree that hot flashes and night sweats are extremely uncomfortable. Is menopause getting worse? A: How we frame menopause has certainly changed culturally, but something seems to be changing biologically, too—especially in terms of hot flashes and night sweats.… Read More »
Imagine a future in which the universe will fall apart very soon. Eventually space-time breaks apart, making the universe uninhabitable. Imagine a future in which the universe will fall apart very soon. First come the clusters whose galaxies are moving away from each other. Later galaxies solve it. Then star systems and planets. And then… Read More »
Across dozens of archaeological discoveries around the world, from the once-thriving reservoirs and canals at Angkor Wat in Cambodia to the abandoned Viking colonies of Greenland, new evidence reveals images of civilizations struggling with unpredictable climate changes and the reality that agricultural practices are increasingly deteriorating. unsustainable. These discoveries include success stories in which ancient… Read More »
Three NASA astronauts and their Russian cosmonaut teammates flew to Kennedy Space Center on Sunday to prepare for launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Friday, kicking off a planned six-month tour of duty aboard the International Space Station. Crew 8 commander flies from Johnson Space Center in Houston Matthew Dominickco-pilot Michael Barratt, Jeanette… Read More »
The water cycle that moves Earth’s most vital resource in an endless, life-giving cycle is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted the delicate balance of this cycle, disrupting the circulation of water between the land, oceans and atmosphere. Events in 2023 show how serious these disruptions have become. From extreme precipitation to floods, drought to… Read More »
Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it burns for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, enough to fill a few buckets. Then nothing happened for days. Gomez, who lives in Mexico City’s Tlalpan district, doesn’t have a large storage tank, so he can’t receive… Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a leap year. This is a treat for the calendar and math geeks among us. So how did it all start and why? Take a look at some of the numbers, history and information behind the phenomenon that adds (not exactly) a 29th day to February every four years. BY… Read More »